Global climate change and freshwater ecosystems /
Global climate change and freshwater ecosystems /
Penelope Firth, Stuart G. Fisher, editors.
- New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1992.
- xi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Based on proceedings from a symposium held in Blacksburg, Va., on May 22, 1990, and sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the North American Benthological Society.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Global climate change / Joel S. Levine -- Chapter 2. Water resources in a changing climate / Dennis E. Ford and Kent W. Thornton -- Chapter 3. The sensitivity of methane emissions from northern freshwater wetlands to global warming / Robert C. Harriss and Stephen E. Frolking -- Chapter 4. Reciprocal interactions among lakes, large rivers, and climate / John M. Melack -- Chapter 5. Regional hydrologic response to climate change: an ecological perspective / N. LeRoy Poff -- Chapter 6. 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, and Rona Donahoe -- Chapter 7. Climate change and the life histories and biogeography of aquatic insects in eastern North America / Bernard W. Sweeney, John K. Jackson, J. Denis Newbold, and David H. Funk -- Chapter 8. Modification of terrestrial-aquatic interactions by a changing climate / Judy L. Meyer and William M. Pulliam -- Chapter 9. Climate change and Alaskan rivers and streams / M.W. Oswood, A.M. Milner, and J.G. Irons III -- Chapter 10. Responses of arid-land streams to changing climate / Nancy B. Grimm and Stuart G. Fisher -- Chapter 11. Interactions between drying and the hyporheic zone of a desert stream / Emily H. Stanley and H. Maurice Valett -- Chapter 12. Streams in semiarid regions as sensitive indicators of global climate change / Clifford N. Dahm and Manuel C. Molles, Jr. -- Chapter 13. Remote sensing applications for freshwater systems / Jack F. Paris -- Chapter 14. Problems of long-term monitoring of lotic ecosystems / Dale A. Burns, G. Bruce Wiersma, and G. Wayne Minshall -- Chapter 15. Troubled waters of greenhouse earth: summary and synthesis / G. Wayne Minshall -- Index.
"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."--Publisher’s description.
038797640X 9780387976402 354097640X 9783540976400
FRESHWATER ECOLOGY
CLIMATIC CHANGES
CLIMATOLOGY
BIOGEOGRAPHY
HYDROLOGY
GLOBAL WARMING
WATER RESOURCES
METHANE
WETLANDS
LAKES
RIVERS
RIVER FLOW
SEDIMENTATION
STREAMS
SEDIMENT TRANSPORT
AQUATIC INSECTS
DESERTS
DESERTIFICATION
REMOTE SENSING
MONITORING
CONFERENCES
QH541.5.F7 / G57 1991
574.5/2632
574.5:551.588
Based on proceedings from a symposium held in Blacksburg, Va., on May 22, 1990, and sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the North American Benthological Society.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Global climate change / Joel S. Levine -- Chapter 2. Water resources in a changing climate / Dennis E. Ford and Kent W. Thornton -- Chapter 3. The sensitivity of methane emissions from northern freshwater wetlands to global warming / Robert C. Harriss and Stephen E. Frolking -- Chapter 4. Reciprocal interactions among lakes, large rivers, and climate / John M. Melack -- Chapter 5. Regional hydrologic response to climate change: an ecological perspective / N. LeRoy Poff -- Chapter 6. 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, and Rona Donahoe -- Chapter 7. Climate change and the life histories and biogeography of aquatic insects in eastern North America / Bernard W. Sweeney, John K. Jackson, J. Denis Newbold, and David H. Funk -- Chapter 8. Modification of terrestrial-aquatic interactions by a changing climate / Judy L. Meyer and William M. Pulliam -- Chapter 9. Climate change and Alaskan rivers and streams / M.W. Oswood, A.M. Milner, and J.G. Irons III -- Chapter 10. Responses of arid-land streams to changing climate / Nancy B. Grimm and Stuart G. Fisher -- Chapter 11. Interactions between drying and the hyporheic zone of a desert stream / Emily H. Stanley and H. Maurice Valett -- Chapter 12. Streams in semiarid regions as sensitive indicators of global climate change / Clifford N. Dahm and Manuel C. Molles, Jr. -- Chapter 13. Remote sensing applications for freshwater systems / Jack F. Paris -- Chapter 14. Problems of long-term monitoring of lotic ecosystems / Dale A. Burns, G. Bruce Wiersma, and G. Wayne Minshall -- Chapter 15. Troubled waters of greenhouse earth: summary and synthesis / G. Wayne Minshall -- Index.
"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."--Publisher’s description.
038797640X 9780387976402 354097640X 9783540976400
FRESHWATER ECOLOGY
CLIMATIC CHANGES
CLIMATOLOGY
BIOGEOGRAPHY
HYDROLOGY
GLOBAL WARMING
WATER RESOURCES
METHANE
WETLANDS
LAKES
RIVERS
RIVER FLOW
SEDIMENTATION
STREAMS
SEDIMENT TRANSPORT
AQUATIC INSECTS
DESERTS
DESERTIFICATION
REMOTE SENSING
MONITORING
CONFERENCES
QH541.5.F7 / G57 1991
574.5/2632
574.5:551.588