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Ecology of Meromictic Lakes

  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction: Meromictic Lakes, Their Terminology and Geographic Distribution

    • Egor S. Zadereev, Bertram Boehrer, Ramesh D. Gulati
    Pages 1-11
  3. Special Features of Meromictic Lakes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Physical Features of Meromictic Lakes: Stratification and Circulation

      • Bertram Boehrer, Christoph von Rohden, Martin Schultze
      Pages 15-34
    3. Chemical Setting and Biogeochemical Reactions in Meromictic Lakes

      • Martin Schultze, Bertram Boehrer, Katrin Wendt-Potthoff, Sergei Katsev, Erik T. Brown
      Pages 35-59
    4. Biological and Ecological Features, Trophic Structure and Energy Flow in Meromictic Lakes

      • Egor S. Zadereev, Ramesh D. Gulati, Antonio Camacho
      Pages 61-86
  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
    2. Comparative Study of the Stability of Stratification and the Food Web Structure in the Meromictic Lakes Shira and Shunet (South Siberia, Russia)

      • Denis Rogozin, Egor Zadereev, Igor Prokopkin, Alexander Tolomeev, Yuri Barkhatov, Elena Khromechek et al.
      Pages 89-124
    3. Lake Cadagno: Microbial Life in Crenogenic Meromixis

      • Mauro Tonolla, Nicola Storelli, Francesco Danza, Damiana Ravasi, Sandro Peduzzi, Nicole R. Posth et al.
      Pages 155-186
    4. Lake La Cruz, an Iron-Rich Karstic Meromictic Lake in Central Spain

      • Antonio Camacho, María R. Miracle, Lidia Romero-Viana, Antonio Picazo, Eduardo Vicente
      Pages 187-233
    5. Meromictic Pit Lakes: Case Studies from Spain, Germany and Canada and General Aspects of Management and Modelling

      • Martin Schultze, Bertram Boehrer, Katrin Wendt-Potthoff, Javier Sánchez-España, Devin Castendyk
      Pages 235-275
    6. Tropical Meromictic Lakes: Specifics of Meromixis and Case Studies of Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, and Matano

      • Sergei Katsev, Piet Verburg, Marc Llirós, Elizabeth C. Minor, Brittany R. Kruger, Jiying Li
      Pages 277-323
    7. Mono Lake: Plankton Dynamics over Three Decades of Meromixis or Monomixis

      • John M. Melack, Robert Jellison, Sally MacIntyre, James T. Hollibaugh
      Pages 325-351
    8. Mexican Meromictic Lakes: What We Know So Far

      • Javier Alcocer
      Pages 353-375
  5. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 377-377
    2. Conclusion: Ecology of Meromictic Lakes

      • Ramesh D. Gulati, Egor S. Zadereev
      Pages 379-398
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 399-405

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

  • Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO), Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Ramesh D. Gulati

  • SB RAS Institute of Biophysics, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

    Egor S. Zadereev, Andrei G. Degermendzhi

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

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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