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The Algal Bowl
Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries
- 348 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
The Algal Bowl
Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries
About this book
The greatest threat to water quality worldwide is nutrient pollution. Cultural eutrophication by nutrients in sewage, fertilizers, and detergents is feeding massive algal blooms, choking out aquatic life and outpacing heavy metals, oil spills, and other toxins in the devastation wrought upon the world's fresh waters. Renowned water scientists, David W. Schindler and John R. Vallentyne, share their combined 80 years of experience with the eutrophication problem to explain its history and science, and offer real-world solutions for mitigating this catastrophe in the making. For those who have lost sight of Vallentyne's 1974 first edition, Schindler's fully revised and expanded edition is an unambiguous road map for change.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Algal Bowl
- 2 Lakes and Humans
- 3 Lakes are Made of Water
- 4 How Lakes Breathe
- 5 Phosphorus, The Morning Star
- 6 The Environmental Physician
- 7 Detergents and Lakes
- 8 The Year of NTA
- 9 Understanding Eutrophication from Experiments in Small Lakes
- 10 Changes in the Eutrophication Problem Since the Mid-20th Century
- 11 The Muddy Archives—Using the Fossil Record to Interpret the History of Eutrophication
- 12 Recovery from Eutrophication
- 13 Eutrophication in Estuaries and Coastal Zones
- 14 The Eutrophication Problem as Part of a Greater Environmental Crisis
- Appendix
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- About the Authors