Global Climate Change and Freshwater Ecosystems
Global climate change is a certainty. The Earth's climate has never remained static for long and the prospect for human-accelerated climate change in the near future appears likely. Freshwater systems are intimately connected to climate in several ways: they may influence global atmospheric pro...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1992, 1992
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1992 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Global Climate Change
- 2. Water Resources in a Changing Climate
- 3. The Sensitivity of Methane Emissions from Northern Freshwater Wetlands to Global Warming
- 4. Reciprocal Interactions Among Lakes, Large Rivers, and Climate
- 5. Regional Hydrologic Response to Climate Change: An Ecological Perspective
- 6. Geological Mediation of Stream Flow and Sediment and Solute Loading to Stream Ecosystems Due to Climate Change
- 7. Climate Change and the Life Histories and Biogeography of Aquatic Insects in Eastern North America
- 8. Modification of Terrestrial-Aquatic Interactions by a Changing Climate
- 9. Climate Change and Alaskan Rivers and Streams
- 10. Responses of Arid-Land Streams to Changing Climate.
- 11. Interactions Between Drying and the Hyporheic Zone of a Desert Stream
- 12. Streams in Semiarid Regions as Sensitive Indicators of Global Climate Change
- 13. Remote Sensing Applications for Freshwater Systems
- 14. Problems of Long-Term Monitoring of Lotic Ecosystems
- 15. Troubled Waters of Greenhouse Earth: Summary and Synthesis