Overview
- Offers the first detailed treatise on meromictic lakes
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the field, but also includes a wealth of new findings
- Furthers readers understanding of the limnology of inland lakes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 228)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Conclusions
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume presents recent advances in the research on meromictic lakes and a state-of-the art overview of this area. After an introduction to the terminology and geographic distribution of meromictic lakes, three concise chapters describe their physical, chemical and biological features. The following eight chapters present case studies of more than a dozen meromictic lakes, showing the variety of physical and biochemical processes that promote meromixis. The result is a broad picture of the ecology and biochemistry of meromictic lakes in tropical and cold regions, in man-made pit lakes and euxinic marine lakes, and in freshwater as well as hypersaline lakes. In the final chapter the editors provide a synthesis of the topic and conclude that the study of meromictic lakes also offers new insights into the limnology of inland lakes. The book appeals to researchers in the fields of ecology, limnology, environmental physics and biophysics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Volume Editors
Ramesh D. Gulati, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO), 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands, r.gulati@nioo.knaw.nl
Egor S. Zadereev, Institute of Biophysics, SB RAS, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, egor@ibp.ru
Andrei G. Degermendzhi, Institute of Biophysics, SB RAS, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, ibp@ibp.ru
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecology of Meromictic Lakes
Editors: Ramesh D. Gulati, Egor S. Zadereev, Andrei G. Degermendzhi
Series Title: Ecological Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49143-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49141-7Published: 01 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84093-2Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49143-1Published: 22 February 2017
Series ISSN: 0070-8356
Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 405
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Biogeosciences, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Geophysics and Environmental Physics