Climate change impacts on freshwater ecosystems /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Aquatic ecosystem variability and climate change - a palaeoecological perspective / Richard W. Battarbee -- Direct impacts of climate change on freshwater ecosystems / Ulrike Nickus ... [et al.] -- Climate change and the hydrology and morphology of freshwater ecosystems / Piet F.M. Verdonschot ... [et al.] -- Monitoring the responses of freshwater ecosystems to climate change / Daniel Hering ... [et al.] -- Interaction of climate change and eutrophication / Erik Jeppesen ... [et al.] -- Interaction of climate change and acid deposition / Richard F. Wright ... [et al.] -- Distribution of persistent organic pollutants and mercury in freshwater ecosystems under changing climate conditions / Joan O. Grimalt ... [et al.] -- Climate change : redefining reference conditions and restoring freshwater ecosystems / Richard K. Johnson ... [et al.] -- Modelling catchment-scale responses to climate change / Richard A. Skeffington ... [et al.] -- Tools for better decision making : bridges from science to policy / Conor Linstead ... [et al.] -- What of the future? / Brian Moss.

"This text examines the impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems, past, present and future. It especially considers the interactions between climate change and other drivers of change including hydromorphological modification, nutrient loading, acid deposition and contamination by toxic substances using evidence from palaeolimnology, time-series analysis, space-for-time substitution, laboratory and field experiments and process modelling. The book evaluates these processes in relation to extreme events, seasonal changes in ecosystems, trends over decadal-scale time periods, mitigation strategies and ecosystem recovery.The book is also concerned with how aspects of hydrophysical, hydrochemical and ecological change can be used as early indicators of climate change in aquatic ecosystems and it addresses the implications of future climate change for freshwater ecosystem management at the catchment scale.This is an ideal book for the scientific research community, but is also accessible to Masters and senior undergraduate students"--