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Lake Restoration Handbook

A New Zealand Perspective

  • Integrates leading technologies, models, indigenous knowledge, and citizen science on lake restoration
  • Shows how these contemporary lake restoration tools may be applied practically for solutions to water quality problem
  • Provides inter-disciplinary understanding across the natural and social sciences
  • Addresses diffuse pollution, invasive species and climate change
  • Synthesises information on lake restoration at the local (New Zealand) scale and provides an international context for this information
  • With contributions from leading authorities across the globe

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Context for Restoration

    • John M. Quinn, Kevin J. Collier, Clive Howard-Williams, David P. Hamilton
    Pages 1-23
  3. Modelling for Catchment Management

    • Aroon Parshotam, Dale M. Robertson
    Pages 25-65
  4. Modelling Water Quality to Support Lake Restoration

    • Moritz K. Lehmann, David P. Hamilton
    Pages 67-105
  5. Agricultural Catchment Restoration

    • R. W. McDowell, R. M. Monaghan, M. E. Close, C. C. Tanner
    Pages 107-127
  6. Nutrient Budgets in Lakes

    • Piet Verburg, Marc Schallenberg, Sandy Elliott, Chris G. McBride
    Pages 129-163
  7. Physical Processes for In-Lake Restoration: Destratification and Mixing

    • Max M. Gibbs, Clive Howard-Williams
    Pages 165-205
  8. Flocculants and Sediment Capping for Phosphorus Management

    • Max M. Gibbs, Chris W. Hickey
    Pages 207-265
  9. Control of Invasive Aquatic Plants

    • Deborah Hofstra, John Clayton, Paul Champion, Mary D. de Winton
    Pages 267-298
  10. Management of Non-indigenous Lacustrine Animals

    • Ian C. Duggan, Kevin Collier
    Pages 299-331
  11. Restoration of Native Fish in New Zealand Lakes and Reservoirs

    • David K. Rowe, Gerry Closs, David W. West
    Pages 333-365
  12. Indicators of Ecological Integrity

    • Marc Schallenberg, Mary D. de Winton, David J. Kelly
    Pages 367-393
  13. Automated High-frequency Monitoring and Research

    • Chris G. McBride, Kevin C. Rose
    Pages 419-461
  14. Remote Sensing of Water Quality

    • Mathew G. Allan, Chris G. McBride
    Pages 463-494
  15. Applying Citizen Science to Freshwater Ecosystem Restoration

    • Monica A. Peters, David Hamilton, Chris Eames
    Pages 533-556
  16. Reflections on Lake Restoration

    • Clive Howard-Williams, Kevin J. Collier, David P. Hamilton, John M. Quinn
    Pages 557-573
  17. Back Matter

    Pages 575-599

About this book

Lakes across the globe require help.  The Lake Restoration Handbook: A New Zealand Perspective addresses this need through a series of chapters that draw on recent advances in modelling and monitoring tools, citizen science and First Peoples’ roles, catchment and lake-focused restoration techniques, and policy implementation. New Zealand lakes, like lakes across the globe, are subject to multiple pressures that have increased in severity and scale as land use has intensified, invasive species have spread and global climate change becomes manifest. This books builds on the popular Lake Managers Handbook (1987), which provided guidance on undertaking investigations into, and understanding lake ecosystems in New Zealand. The Lake Restoration Handbook: A New Zealand Perspective synthesises contemporary issues related to lake restoration and rehabilitation, integrated with social science and cultural viewpoints, and complemented by authoritative topic-area summaries by renowned scientists and practitioners from across the globe. The book examines the progress of lake restoration and the new and emerging tools available to managers for predicting and effecting change. The book will be a valuable resource for natural and social scientists, policy writers, lake managers, and anyone interested in the health of lake ecosystems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

    David P. Hamilton

  • Environmental Research Institute, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Kevin J. Collier

  • NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), Hamilton, New Zealand

    John M. Quinn

  • NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), Christchurch, New Zealand

    Clive Howard-Williams

About the editors

​David Hamilton is Deputy Directory at the Australian Rivers Institute at Griffith University. He held the Bay of Plenty Chair in Lake Restoration at the University of Waikato, New Zealand for 15 years and led a major lake restoration programme designed to provide the underpinning research to address algal blooms and incursions of invasive fish.  This programme provided the impetus for the current book.  Hamilton is an associated editor on two international journals and has led several special issues of scientific journals. He has also held a position at the University of Western Australia where he developed and applied models of lake water quality.

Kevin Collier is a freshwater ecologist at the University of Waikato who has worked across the science-management interface for over 30 years. He has previously co-edited books synthesising ecological knowledge of New Zealand freshwater invertebrates (2000) and the country's longest river, the Waikato River (2010). He is associate editor on two international journals.

John Quinn is an aquatic ecologist who has been Chief Scientist for Freshwater and Estuaries at NIWA since 2015. Over the previous 20 years, he led cross-institute, interdisciplinary, research programmes on river, lake and estuary restoration, river ecosystems and land use interactions and managing forest harvest impacts on streams. He has been a guest editor of two special issues of scientific journals focused on the outputs of these programmes.

Clive Howard-Williams is currently Chief Science Advisor (Natural Resources) at New Zealand's National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research. He has published widely on freshwater ecosystems from tropical to polar regions, and has led research programmes on wetland, lake and estuarine ecosystems. He has also been involved in freshwater consultancy work on freshwater restoration. Clive has been the guesteditor of several books and journal special issues related to aquatic ecology.

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