Handbook of Inland Aquatic Ecosystem Management (Applied Ecology and Environmental Management)

Combining background knowledge and practical tools, **Handbook of Inland Aquatic Ecosystem Management** gives you an overview of how to manage inland waters in a holistic manner. It examines the problems that threaten aquatic inland water ecosystems and presents a set of toolboxes for solving them. The book focuses on lakes, reservoirs, ponds, rivers, wetlands, lagoons, and estuaries, including the predominant freshwater ecosystems as well as saline and brackish ecosystems. **__Understand Ecosystem Properties and Ecological Processes__** The book consists of two parts. The first part reviews the basic scientific knowledge needed in the environmental and ecological management of aquatic ecosystems, from limnology and ecology of inland water ecosystems to environmental physics and chemistry. It emphasizes the interacting processes that characterize all inland aquatic ecosystems and explains the scientific considerations behind the conservation principles and their applications. **__Define the Problems and Quantify Their Sources__** The second part of the book presents toolboxes that you can apply to achieve more holistic environmental and ecological management. After an overview of the environmental problems of inland aquatic ecosystems and their sources, the book examines toolboxes to help you identify the problem, namely mass balances, ecological indicators, and ecological models. It also discusses toolboxes that can be used to find an environmental management solution to the problem: environmental technology, cleaner technology, and ecotechnology. **__Integrate Science and Practical Toolboxes to Manage Inland Waters More Effectively__** This book shows you how to integrate biology, ecology, limnology, and chemistry with the toolboxes in an up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to environmental management. It provides a powerful framework for identifying ecological mechanisms that interact with global environmental problems threatening inland aquatic ecosystems. "Combining background knowledge and practical tools, Handbook of Inland Aquatic Ecosystem Management gives you an overview of how to manage inland waters in a holistic manner. It examines the problems that threaten aquatic inland water ecosystems and presents a set of toolboxes for solving them. The book focuses on lakes, reservoirs, ponds, rivers, wetlands, lagoons, and estuaries, including the predominant freshwater ecosystems as well as saline and brackish ecosystems. Understand Ecosystem Properties and Ecological ProcessesThe book consists of two parts. The first part reviews the basic scientific knowledge needed in the environmental and ecological management of aquatic ecosystems, from limnology and ecology of inland water ecosystems to environmental physics and chemistry. It emphasizes the interacting processes that characterize all inland aquatic ecosystems and explains the scientific considerations behind the conservation principles and their applications. Define the Problems and Quantify Their SourcesThe second part of the book presents toolboxes that you can apply to achieve more holistic environmental and ecological management. After an overview of the environmental problems of inland aquatic ecosystems and their sources, the book examines toolboxes to help you identify the problem, namely mass balances, ecological indicators, and ecological models. It also discusses toolboxes that can be used to find an environmental management solution to the problem: environmental technology, cleaner technology, and ecotechnology. Integrate Science and Practical Toolboxes to Manage Inland Waters More EffectivelyThis book shows you how to integrate biology, ecology, limnology, and chemistry with the toolboxes in an up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to environmental management. It provides a powerful framework for identifying ecological mechanisms that interact with global environmental problems threatening inland aquatic ecosystems."--Provided by publisher Front Cover 1 Contents 7 Introduction 13 Authors 15 Chapter 1 - Overview of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems and Their General Characteristics 19 Chapter 2 - Lakes and Reservoirs as Ecosystems 27 Chapter 3 - Physical Processes and Circulation in Lakes and Reservoirs 59 Chapter 4 - Rivers as Ecosystems 77 Chapter 5 - Estuaries and Coastal Lagoons as Ecosystems 99 Chapter 6 - Wetlands 113 Chapter 7 - Tropical Freshwater Ecosystems 125 Chapter 8 - Freshwater Temperate Lakes and Reservoirs 175 Chapter 9 - Application of the Conservation Principles 189 Chapter 10 - Application of Aquatic Chemistry in Environmental Management I: Calculations of Equilibria 209 Chapter 11 - Application of Aquatic Chemistry in Environmental Management II: Equilibrium Calculations of the Four Types of Reactions 229 Chapter 12 - Future of Limnology and Aquatic Ecology as a Tool for Management of Inland Waters 271 Chapter 13 - Impacts on Watersheds and Inland Aquatic Ecosystems 277 Chapter 14 - Integrated Ecological and Environmental Management 285 Chapter 15 - Application of Environmental Technology in the Environmental and Ecological Management 301 Chapter 16 - Application of Cleaner Technology in Environmental and Ecological Management 323 Chapter 17 - Application of Ecotechnology in Ecosystem Management of Inland Waters 335 Chapter 18 - Application of Ecological Indicators in Environmental Management of Freshwater Ecosystems 357 Chapter 19 - Application of Ecological Models in Management of Aquatic Inland Ecosystems 373 Back Cover 427 " ... a book on the subject of lakes and reservoirs is extremely welcome today when fast global changes, including urbanization, global commerce, and climate, are posing-and will pose in the near future-greater stress in our hydrologic systems. The authors present the subject in such a way that the reader will learn not only fundamentals of limnology but also the behavior of lakes and reservoirs both from a physicochemical and an ecosystemic point of view. The book relies on several examples from projects developed by the authors on the ground. This is something that professiona."