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Table of contents (54 papers)
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Invited address
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Life cycle and systematics
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Marine diatoms, climatic change
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About this book
As the frustules of many diatom species are relatively resistant to dissolution they are preserved in freshwater and marine sediments and provide a record of past environments on earth. In past decades they have been successfully used to reconstruct changes in water bodies evoked by changes in salinity, acidification and eutrophication. In the last few years diatom-inferred predictions of environmental variables have become much more quantitative.
In the most recent research reports the strong separation between palaeolimnological and neolimnological diatom research is fading, as palaeolimnologists are increasingly using modern calibration sets to infer past states of the environment. This quantitative approach is also very suitable for prediction of future changes in the biota of surface waters. Also ecological changes due to climatic modification have been investigated more thoroughly recently. A very important new research topic is the occurrence of toxic diatoms, particularly along the coasts of North America. These proceedings are intended to be a balanced view of such modern developments in diatom research. They should also be of interest to non-specialists in diatoms, who can use the results of diatom research as a tool in a more general taxonomic, ecological and geological context.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Twelfth International Diatom Symposium
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Diatom Symposium, Renesse, The Netherlands, 30 August – 5 September 1992
Editors: Herman Dam
Series Title: Developments in Hydrobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3622-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2484-3Published: 31 December 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4324-5Published: 13 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3622-0Published: 29 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 540
Topics: Microbiology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Ecology, Environment, general, Atmospheric Sciences