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Lake Veluwe, a Macrophyte-dominated System under Eutrophication Stress

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Editors:
  1. Wim Vierssen
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  2. Michiel Hootsmans
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  3. Jan Vermaat
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Part of the book series: Geobotany (GEOB, volume 21)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: the scope of the research project

    • W. van Vierssen, M. J. M. Hootsmans, J. E. Vermaat
    Pages 1-4

  3. The Zuiderzee: transformation of a brackishwater ecosystem

    • W. van Vierssen, A. W. Breukelaar
    Pages 5-19

  4. Twenty years of dynamics and distribution of Potamogeton pectinatus L. in Lake Veluwe

    • M. Scheffer, H. Drost, M. R. De Redelijkheid, F. Noppert
    Pages 20-25

  5. Intraspecific variation in Potamogeton pectinatus L.: a controlled laboratory experiment

    • J. E. Vermaat, M. J. M. Hootsmans
    Pages 26-39

  6. Growth of Potamogeton pectinatus L. in a temperature-light gradient

    • J. E. Vermaat, M. J. M. Hootsmans
    Pages 40-61

  7. Light-response curves of Potamogeton pectinatus L. as a function of plant age and irradiance level during growth

    • M. J. M. Hootsmans, J. E. Vermaat
    Pages 62-117

  8. Photoperiodic effects on photosynthesis and tuber production in Potamogeton pectinatus L.

    • W. van Vierssen, M. J. M. Hootsmans
    Pages 118-134

  9. Early growth characteristics of Potamogeton pectinatus L.: the significance of the tuber

    • W. van Vierssen, A. Mathies, J. E. Vermaat
    Pages 135-143

  10. Seasonal dynamics of a field population of Potamogeton pectinatus L. under various experimental light conditions

    • W. van Vierssen, M. J. M. Hootsmans, A. W. Breukelaar, R. Gijlstra
    Pages 144-157

  11. Factors contributing to light attenuation in Lake Veluwe

    • G. Blom, E. H. S. van Duin, J. E. Vermaat
    Pages 158-174

  12. Allelopathic limitation of algal growth by macrophytes

    • M. J. M. Hootsmans, I. Blindow
    Pages 175-192

  13. Periphyton dynamics in a temperature-light gradient

    • J. E. Vermaat, M. J. M. Hootsmans
    Pages 193-212

  14. Periphyton removal by freshwater micrograzers

    • J. E. Vermaat
    Pages 213-249

  15. A growth analysis model for Potamogeton pectinatus L.

    • M. J. M. Hootsmans
    Pages 250-286

  16. Interactions between aquatic macrophytes and fish in Lake Veluwe, direct and indirect effects

    • H. W. De Nie, J. J. G. M. Backx
    Pages 287-295

  17. General conclusions and implications for lake management

    • W. van Vierssen, M. J. M. Hootsmans, J. E. Vermaat
    Pages 296-308

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 309-374
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About this book

The structure and functioning of eutrophicated aquatic ecosystems has received considerable attention from limnologists as well as water managers in recent years. Stress has often been on pelagic food webs of deeper lakes whilst littoral systems or shallower lakes have been less thoroughly investigated. Since Dutch aquatic systems are shallow, as a rule, they form a notable exception. But here, too, the orientation was often on pelagic food webs.
The present study has a clearly different scope in that it takes the water plant as prime perspective. The editors consider water plants to be the key component in shallow aquatic ecosystems. They have compiled work on one water plant species, Potamogeton pectinatus L., and from one lake, Lake Veluwe, as a typical case, and set out to explain the fluctuations in abundance of this water plant as influenced by eutrophication. A working hypothesis on the mechanism responsible for water plant decline during eutrophication was adopted and tested in a combination of field and laboratory work. A simulation model, SAGAI, for the water plant P.pectinatus was developed and proved to fit independent data very well.
The work started out as a joint effort of a single project team in the Department of Nature Conservation of Wageningen Agricultural University, but the present volume has benefited considerably from the inputs of several invited colleagues, as the list of contributors witnesses. The editors have made an invaluable contribution to the understanding of shallow aquatic ecosystems and to their scientifically based and sustainable management.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lake Veluwe, a Macrophyte-dominated System under Eutrophication Stress

  • Editors: Wim Vierssen, Michiel Hootsmans, Jan Vermaat

  • Series Title: Geobotany

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2032-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2320-4Published: 31 March 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4899-6Published: 21 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2032-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 376

  • Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Ecology, Environmental Management

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