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Global Climate Change and Freshwater Ecosystems

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Penelope Firth

    1. Biotic Systems and Resources Division, National Science Foundation, USA

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  2. Stuart G. Fisher

    1. Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Global Climate Change

    • Joel S. Levine
    Pages 1-25

  3. Water Resources in a Changing Climate

    • Dennis E. Ford, Kent W. Thornton
    Pages 26-47

  4. The Sensitivity of Methane Emissions from Northern Freshwater Wetlands to Global Warming

    • Robert C. Harriss, Stephen E. Frolking
    Pages 48-67

  5. Reciprocal Interactions Among Lakes, Large Rivers, and Climate

    • John M. Melack
    Pages 68-87

  6. Regional Hydrologic Response to Climate Change: An Ecological Perspective

    • N. LeRoy Poff
    Pages 88-115

  7. Geological Mediation of Stream Flow and Sediment and Solute Loading to Stream Ecosystems Due to Climate Change

    • Amelia K. Ward, G. Milton Ward, John Harlin, Rona Donahoe
    Pages 116-142

  8. Climate Change and the Life Histories and Biogeography of Aquatic Insects in Eastern North America

    • Bernard W. Sweeney, John K. Jackson, J. Denis Newbold, David H. Funk
    Pages 143-176

  9. Modification of Terrestrial—Aquatic Interactions by a Changing Climate

    • Judy L. Meyer, William M. Pulliam
    Pages 177-191

  10. Climate Change and Alaskan Rivers and Streams

    • M. W. Oswood, A. M. Milner, J. G. Irons III
    Pages 192-210

  11. Responses of Arid-Land Streams to Changing Climate

    • Nancy B. Grimm, Stuart G. Fisher
    Pages 211-233

  12. Interactions Between Drying and the Hyporheic Zone of a Desert Stream

    • Emily H. Stanley, H. Maurice Valett
    Pages 234-249

  13. Streams in Semiarid Regions as Sensitive Indicators of Global Climate Change

    • Clifford N. Dahm, Manuel C. Molles Jr.
    Pages 250-260

  14. Remote Sensing Applications for Freshwater Systems

    • Jack F. Paris
    Pages 261-284

  15. Problems of Long-Term Monitoring of Lotic Ecosystems

    • Dale A. Bruns, G. Bruce Wiersma, G. Wayne Minshall
    Pages 285-307

  16. Troubled Waters of Greenhouse Earth: Summary and Synthesis

    • G. Wayne Minshall
    Pages 308-318

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 319-321
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About this book

Global climate change is a certainty. The Earth's climate has never remained static for long and the prospect for human-accelerated climate change in the near future appears likely. Freshwater systems are intimately connected to climate in several ways: they may influence global atmospheric processes affecting climate; they may be sensitive early indicators of climate change because they integrate the atmospheric and terrestrial events occurring in their catchments; and, of course, they will be affected by climate change. An improved predictive understanding of environmental effects on pattern and process in freshwater ecosystems will be invaluable as a baseline upon which to build sound protection and management policies for fresh waters. This book represents an early step towards this improved understanding. The contributors accepted the challenge to assume global warming of 2-5oC in the next century. They then explored the implications of this scenario on various freshwater ecosystems and processes. To provide a broader perspective, Firth and Fisher included several chapters which do not deal expressly with freshwater ecosystems, but rather discuss climate change in terms of causes and mechanisms, implications for water resources, and the use of remote sensing as a tool for expanding studies from local to global scale.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Biotic Systems and Resources Division, National Science Foundation, USA

    Penelope Firth

  • Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    Stuart G. Fisher

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Climate Change and Freshwater Ecosystems

  • Editors: Penelope Firth, Stuart G. Fisher

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2814-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7681-4Published: 05 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2814-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 321

  • Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Ecology

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