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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Today, only sand barge transport persists but the lough supports Europe's largest eel fishery and provides commercial salmon, trout and perch catches, besides acting as an important centre for recreational pursuits. Increasingly it has become the major water resource for Northern Ireland supplying much of the demand for the heavily populated Belfast area.
Biologically the lough is rich, sustaining enormous invertebrate populations of, for example, chironomids and gammarids alongside the comparatively exotic glacial relict, Mysis relicta. Its bird life makes the lough an area of very special conservation interest as a Ramsar site.
The book describes the basic ecology of the lough with particular emphasis on both the interaction of the physical, chemical and biological components and the role of ecology in resource management. Extensive recent researches are set in geological, geographical and historical context and together with palaeolimnological studies of the sediments are used to trace major changes in the ecology of the lough under man's influence, especially in the past 100 years.
Editors and Affiliations
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Freshwater Laboratory, University of Ulster, Ballyronan, Magherafelt, Co Derry, Northern Ireland
R. B. Wood
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Aquatic Sciences Research Division, Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, Belfast, Northern Ireland
R. V. Smith
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lough Neagh
Book Subtitle: The Ecology of a Multipurpose Water Resource
Editors: R. B. Wood, R. V. Smith
Series Title: Monographiae Biologicae
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2117-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2112-5Published: 30 September 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4236-1Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2117-2Published: 18 April 2013
Series ISSN: 0077-0639
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1729
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 532
Topics: Applied Ecology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Ecology, Nature Conservation