Overview
- Provides a variety of strategies to restore and manage deteriorated recreational urban waters.
- Broadens the understanding of the importance of all trophic levels of the food web for successful rehabilitation and implementation of landscape architecture for an attractive recreational site
- Clearly demonstrates that long-term efforts are essential for sustainable recovery
Part of the book series: Aquatic Ecology Series (AQEC, volume 10)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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History, Physiography, Chemistry and Climate
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Biology, Ecology and Production
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About this book
Here we report on a 25-year long-term sequence of measures to return a deteriorated recreational urban lake, Alte Donau in Vienna to acceptable water quality. Metropolitan waters require focused ecosystem management plans and intensive in-lake efforts. We explored physico-chemical conditions, food web from viruses to fish and water birds, the sediments, the littoral zone and the catchment, management and urban planning, and global warming. Several restoration techniques were tested and critically evaluated. The final management plan was based on bi-stable theory. During the recovery phase, numerous surplus adjustments had to be implemented to secure sustainable achievement.
Reviews
“The book will be of interest to many freshwater specialists as well as to those concerned with the management of lakes. It should prove of particular value to limnologists working in emerging economies where the pressures connected with urban development continue to grow.” (D. Glen George, SILnews, Vol. 74, June, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Alte Donau: Successful Restoration and Sustainable Management
Book Subtitle: An Ecosystem Case Study of a Shallow Urban Lake
Editors: Martin T. Dokulil, Karl Donabaum, Katrin Teubner
Series Title: Aquatic Ecology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93270-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93268-2Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93270-5Published: 09 January 2019
Series ISSN: 1573-4595
Series E-ISSN: 2543-005X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 407
Number of Illustrations: 136 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Ecosystems, Community & Population Ecology, Urban Ecology, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management