Aquatic Ecosystems

Trends and Global Prospects

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Hardcover | 11 September 2008

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Concern about future supplies of fresh water to society, to meet the full range of human needs, now comes very high on the priority list of global societal issues. An overarching issue, which this book addresses, is whether global climate change is a dominant driver of change in the structure and function of all natural water-based ecosystems, or whether direct human population growth and accelerated consumption are playing an equal or greater role. This book divides the whole aquatic realm into 21 ecosystems, from those on land (both saline and fresh water) to those of the open and deep oceans. It draws on the understanding of leading ecologists to summarize the state and likely condition by the year 2025 of each of the ecosystems. Written for academic researchers and environmental professionals, the aim is to put the climate change debate into a broader context as a basis for conservation science and planning.

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' ... [this] volume edited by Polunin provides an enriching, stimulating, and very enjoyable reading. It permits to understand and to appreciate the true complexity of life in the water as well as its vulnerability to our human activity. This book will be appreciated by professional scientists, students, school teachers, ecologically-oriented activists, and a broad audience of nature amateurs. It is very desirable to gather similarly talented teams of authors in order to write such books on the other types of ecosystems.' Palaeontologie Allgemeine
'... a 'must' for all university libraries, and a thoroughly useful reference tome for undergraduates and graduates alike.' Progress in Physical Geography

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Non-Fiction Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Earth Sciences Hydrology & The Hydrosphere Limnology & Freshwater Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Ecological Science Hydrobiology Marine Biology The Environment

Applied Ecology Conservation of The Environment

Introduction: Climate, people, fisheries and aquatic ecosystems	p. 1
Prospects for streams and rivers: an ecological perspective	p. 19
Groundwater ecosystems: human impacts and future management	p. 30
Flood plains: critically threatened ecosystems	p. 45
The future of small lakes and ponds	p. 65
Environmental trends and potential future states of large freshwater lakes	p. 81
Salt lakes: values, threats and future	p. 94
The future of cool temperate peatlands	p. 113
Temperate freshwater wetlands: response to gradients in moisture regime, human alterations and economic status	p. 127
Present state and future of tropical wetlands	p. 141
Saltmarsh	p. 157
Future of mangrove ecosystems to 2025	p. 172
Environmental future of estuaries	p. 188
Rocky intertidal shores: prognosis for the future	p. 209
Current status and future trends in kelp forest ecosystems	p. 226
Projecting the current trajectory for coral reefs	p. 242
Sandy shores of the near future	p. 263
Seagrass ecosystems: their global status and prospects	p. 281
Continental-shelf benthic ecosystems: prospects for an improved environmental future	p. 295
The marine pelagic ecosystem: perspectives on humanity's role in the future	p. 311
Polar and ice-edge marine systems	p. 319
The near future of the deep-sea floor ecosystems	p. 334
Trends and global prospects of the Earth s aquatic ecosystems	p. 353
References	p. 366
Index	p. 473
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