The Lake Foodweb. Modelling predation and abiotic/biotic interactions.
Lars Hakanson & Victor V. Boulion. 4/2002.
The book presents the Lake Webmodel, a general model to quantify all
important lake foodweb interactions, including biotic/abiotic feedbacks.
The model has been critically tested against very comprehensive
empirical data sets mainly from Eastern and Western Europe, including
many new empirical models. Lake Web includes the key functional groups
of organisms: phytoplankton, bacterioplankton, benthic algae,
macrophytes, zoobenthos, herbivorous and predatory zooplankton, prey
fish and predatory fish. The model is based on many new approaches of
structuring lake foodweb interactions. It uses ordinary differential
equations and gives weekly variations in production and biomass for its
nine groups of organisms. The model also includes a new mass-balance
model for phosphorus and new approaches to quantify suspended
particulate matter and the depth of the photic zone. Funamental concepts
include consumption rates, metabolic efficiency ratios, distribution
coefficients, migration of fish and predation pressure. An important
feature of LakeWeb is that it can be run by just a few driving variables
readily accessible from standard maps and monitoring programs. Several
scenarios describe how the model can be applied to address important
management issues, like consequences of biomanipulations (fish kill
catastrophes), changes in land-use (eutrophication and humification),
acidification and global temperature changes. LakeWeb is a powerful tool
to simulate such measures and to get realistic expectations of positive
and negative consequences of remedial measures. The present version of
LakeWeb has been tested for lakes smaller than 300 km2, but many of the
structural components should be valid also for larger systems, e.g., for
coastal areas (like the Baltic or Norwegian fjords), or the large lakes
of the world (like Great Lakes of America, the Caspian Sea or Lake
Ladoga).
In spite of the fact that there exist many good textbooks in Ecosystem
analysis, Ecosystem modelling, Limnology and other Aquatic sciences
there is none which gives the holistic, general approach of this book.
So, it ought to attract a considerable interest from researchers and
students in Ecology, Biology, Geosciences and Environmental engineering,
as well as from consultants and administrators interested in management
and studies of aquatic ecosystems.
Contents
Acknowledgements.
Prologue.
1. Introduction and aim.
2. Fundamental relationships and classification of lakes.
2.1. Definitions of key concepts of the lake foodweb.
2.2. Lake classification systems.
2.3. Lake morphometric parameters.
2.4. The state variables - total-P, pH and lake colour.
2.5. Sedimentological concepts used in LakeWeb.
2.6. Concluding comments.
3. Model structuring and testing.
3.1. Introduction and aim.
3.2. Model set-up.
3.3. Critical model tests.
3.4. Set-up of model tests and calibrations.
3.5. Target variables in LakeWeb.
3.6. Panel of driving variables.
4. The mass-balance model for phosphorus.
4.1. Introduction to lake phosphorus modelling.
4.2. Model description.
4.3. Sensitivity and uncertainty tests.
4.4. A practical application scenario – effects of emissions from fish
farms.
4.5. Concluding remarks.
5. LakeWeb.
5.1. Introduction and aim.
5.2. Phytoplankton and bacterioplankton.
5.3. Macrophytes.
5.4.Benthic algae and zoobenthos.
5.5. Zooplankton.
5.6. Fish.
5.7. Sensitivity and uncertainty tests of the LakeWeb-model.
6. Practical use of LakeWeb.
6.1. Introduction and aim.
6.2. Target variables for lake management.
6.3. Biomanipulation.
6.4. Lumbering operations and lake humification – Lake Stora
Kröntjärn, Sweden.
6.5. Changes in agriculture and oligotrophication
– Lake Batorino, Belarus.
6.6. “Global change”, changes in temperature regime – Lake Batorino,
Belarus.
6.7. Eutrophication and biomanipulation from fish farm emissions - Lake
S. Bullaren, Sweden.
6.8. Consequences and correctives related to acidification
– Lake Huljesjön, Sweden.
6.9. Comments.
7. Epilogue.
8. Literature references.
9. Appendices.
9.1. Data on gram wet weight and dry weight for different species of
plankton.
9.2. Chlorophyll concentrations and total number of bacteria.
9.3. Data on pH, lake colour and phytoplankton biomass.
9.4. Data on the relationship between Secchi depth and suspended
particulate matter.
9.5. Data on biomasses and production values of herbivorous
and predatory zooplankton and primary latitude and phytoplankton
production.
9.6. A compilation of all equations of the LakeWeb-model with values for
the default lake.
Index.
352 pp. 226 figs, 63 tabs. hardcover. ISBN 90-5782-110-9. $110.00
The Black Sea. Ecology and Oceanography. Yuri Sorokin. 4/2002.
The Black Sea is the largest of the World meromictic basins – those
bodies of water characterized by a permanent halocline. In meromictic
basins close to sea coasts, the halocline may form under the influence
of saline sea water, which penetrates via shallow inlets or is seeping
through the sand bars. Being more dense, this water fills deeper layers.
This is the origin of the Black Sea and of numerous small meromictic
estuarine lakes, lagoons, and fjords. The Black Sea is the largest
meromictic basin of this type and contains the greatest amount of anoxic
water on the Planet. The presence of its anoxic zone has had a drastic
influence on its chemical conditions and biota. The formation of its
quasi-permanent chemocline is the consequence of a constant inflow of
saline Mediterranean water from the Sea of Marmara through the Bosporus
strait. These waters are spreading within the deep strata of its basin,
while the salinity in its upper layer is freshened by river water and by
inflow from the Sea of Azov... The specific features of the Black Sea
and its great economic importance stimulated intensive investigations,
which began in the late 18th century. By now it is one of the best
studied enclosed seas. In spite of the existence of a voluminous
literature, and maybe because of it, there is a growing need for a
modern monographic book, which opens the possibility to navigate around
the enormous scientific material and its controversies. Over 90% has
been published in Russian or Romanian languages, practically
inaccessible to the Western scientific communities. This monograph
presents basic scientific knowledge on all aspects of the ecological
state of the Basin, united within a holistic analysis of its ecosystem.
The goal of the present book is to cover the demand for a modern
monographic work of all knowledge about the Black Sea. The author also
wants to demonstrate in this book the power of technological humanity,
able to change catastrophically the ecosystem of a whole deep sea in
only a couple of decades.
Contents.
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I:
Physical Oceanography
1. Morphometry, geology, meteorology, water balance.
2. Physical oceanography.
Part II:
Chemical Oceanography
3. Hydrochernistry.
4. Biogeochemistry of sulphur and redox processes.
5. Biogeochemistry of elements and organic matter.
Part III:
Biological Oceanography
6. Phytoplankton, chlorophyll an pelagic primary production.
7. Bacteria.
8. Zooplankton.
9. Benthic communities.
10. Fish and fishery.
11. Anthropic ecology.
12. References.
875 pages, 838 figs, 232 tables. hardcover. ISBN 90-5782-105-2 $220.00
The Gulf Ecosystem. Health and Sustainability. edited by M. Munawar.
4/2002.
Contents:
SECTION 1:
The Gulf Ecosystem: biogeophysical setting.
Physical and human geography, N.Y. Khan.
Geological oceanography of the Arabian Gulf, A.N. Al- Ghadban.
Meteorology and climate, R.M. Reynolds.
Oceanography, R.M. Reynolds.
Coastal and marine ecology, D.A. Jones, A.R.G. Price, F. Al-Yamani, A.
Al-Zaidan.
Biodiversity; A.R.G. Price, DA. Jones, F Krupp.
SECTION II:
Human stressors.
Oil and petroleum industry, P. Literathy, N.Y. Khan, O. Linden.
Non-oil industry, S. W. Fowler.
Power and desalination plants, H. Khordagui. Agrochemicals, S. W. Fowler
SECTION III:
Habitat Degradation and Wider Impacts.
Dredging and infilling, A. N. Al-Ghadban, A.R.G. Price.
Urban wastes and disposal, S. AI-Muzaini, M.U. Beg.
Changes in riverine input and loss of wetlands, F.Y. Al-Yamani, N.Y.
Khan.
Fishing and mariculture, J.M. Bishop.
Impact of wars; The Gulf War l990-91, O. Linden, T. Husain.
Atmospheric fallout, T. Husain, E. Memon.
SECTION IV:
Ecosystem Health.
Aquatic ecosystem health of the Arabian Gulf: Status and research needs,
M. Munawar, A.R.G. Price, I.F. Munawar, S. Carou, H. Niblock, J.
Lorimer.
Seafood contamination, M. Sadiq, T. Saeed, S. W. Fowler.
Human-induced global climate change: predicted effects and implications
for the Gulf, J.T. Hardy.
Framework for ecological risk assessment: deterministic and
probabilistic analyses, T. Husain, R. Sadiq, Mukhtasor, A.A. Khan.
SECTION V:
Management.
Legal and institutional frameworks, N. Y. Khan, A.R.G. Price.
Integrated coastal zone management, A.R.G. Price, N.Y. Khan.
Marine protected areas, F. Krupp.
Integrated regional database management systems, A.R.G. Price, A.N.
Al-Ghadban.
Environmental trends and integrated management of the Gulf, N.Y. Khan,
M. Munawar A.R.G. Price
Subject Index (P. Buchanan). 510 pages, 49 figs, including 3 color, 91
tables. ISBN 90-5782-106-0. hardcover. $162.00
Freshwater Meiofauna: Biology and Ecology. Rundle, S.D., Robertson A.L.
& Schmid-Araya, J.M. (Eds). 2002.
Meiofauna are a diverse and numerous component of the fauna in
freshwater ecosystems, but have been mostly ignored by freshwater
scientists. Freshwater Meiofauna aims to raise the awareness of this
enigmatic, microscopic component of the freshwater biota, by providing
the first-ever, comprehensive review of their biology and ecology. The
first section of the book gives indepth accounts of the systematics,
morphological characteristics, life histories and ecological
requirements of the main freshwater meiofaunal taxa (i.e.
microturbellarians, rotifers, gastrotriches, nematodes, water mites,
microcrustaceans and tardigrades). The second section then takes an
integrated approach to review the current state-of-play in meiofaunal
ecological research in freshwaters, addressing important issues, such as
the importance of meiofaunal taxa in the trophic dynamics of freshwater
ecosystems and the process underpinning the distribution patterns
observed in meiofaunal assemblages. This book should appeal to a wide
range of freshwater scientists, including novices in the study of
freshwater meiobenthology and established researchers in freshwater
ecology, for whom the meiofauna represent an unopened “black box". Our
ultimate goal is that this book will serve to promote the idea that the
zoology of freshwater habitats concerns more than just fish,
macroinvertebrates and microbes.
Contents:
1. Microturbellaria, Jurek Kolasa.
2. Rotifera, Robert Lee Wallace and Claudia Ricci.
3. Gastrotricha, Maria Balsamo and M Antonio Todaro.
4. Nematoda, Walter Traunspurger.
5. Hydrachnidia (Water mites), Antonio Di Sabatino, Peter Martin,
Reinhard Gerecke and Bruno Cicolani.
6. Microcrustacea, Diana Galassi, Pierre Marmonier, Marie-Jose' Dole-
Olivier and Simon Rundle.
7. Tardigrada, Diane R. Nelson and Sandra J. McInnes.
8. The small scale ecology of freshwater meiofauna, Pamela Silver
Margaret A. Palmer, Christopher M. Swan and David Wooster
9. Freshwater meiofauna and surface water-sediment linkages: a
conceptual framework for cross-system comparisons, Andrew Boulton,
Christine Hakenkamp, Margaret Palmer and David Strayer
10. Changing times: the temporal dynamics of freshwater benthic
microcrustacea, Anne L. Robertson.
11. The geographical ecology of freshwater meiofauna, Simon Rundle,
David Bilton, Diana Galassi and Dennis Shiozawa.
12. Trophic relationships in temporary and permanent freshwater
meiofauna, Peter E. Schmid and Jenny M. Schmid-Araya.
13. The functional importance of freshwater meiofauna, Christine C.
Hakenkamp, Antoine Morin and David L. Strayer
14. CODA: The micrognathozoa - a new class or phylum of freshwater
meiofauna?, Peter Funch and Rein hardt MØbjerg Kristensen.
Subject index.
Taxonomic index.
xvi and 370 pp., 65 figures, 28 tables, hardbound. ISBN 90-5782-109-5.
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