Global climate change and freshwater ecosystems

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Global climate change and freshwater ecosystems

Penelope Firth, Stuart G. Fisher, editors

Springer-Verlag, c1992

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Based on proceedings from a symposium held in Blacksburg, Va., on May 22, 1990, and sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the North American Benthological Society

Includes bibliographical references and index

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: us ISBN 9780387976402

内容説明

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 processes affecting climate; they may be sensitive early indicators of climate change because they integrate the atmospheric and terrestrial events occurring in their catchments; and, of course, they will be affected by climate change. An improved predictive understanding of environmental effects on pattern and process in freshwater ecosystems will be invaluable as a baseline upon which to build sound protection and management policies for fresh waters. This book represents an early step towards this improved understanding. The contributors accepted the challenge to assume global warming of 2-5oC in the next century. They then explored the implications of this scenario on various freshwater ecosystems and processes. To provide a broader perspective, Firth and Fisher included several chapters which do not deal expressly with freshwater ecosystems, but rather discuss climate change in terms of causes and mechanisms, implications for water resources, and the use of remote sensing as a tool for expanding studies from local to global scale.

目次

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.
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: gw ISBN 9783540976400

内容説明

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 processes affecting climate; they may be sensitive early indicators of climate change because they integrate the atmospheric and terrestrial events occurring in their catchments; and, of course, they will be affected by climate change. An improved predictive understanding of environmental effects on pattern and process in freshwater ecosystems will be invaluable as a baseline upon which to build sound protection and management policies for fresh waters. This book represents an early step towards this improved understanding. The contributors accepted the challenge to assume global warming of 2-5 degrees C in the next century. They then explored the implications of this scenario on various freshwater ecosystems and processes. To provide a broader perspective, Firth and Fisher have included several chapters which do not deal expressly with freshwater ecosystems, but rather discuss climate change in terms of causes and mechanisms, implications for water resources, and the use of remote sensing as a tool for expanding studies from local to global scale.

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