The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth SciencesJohn P. Smol, Eugene F. Stoermer This much revised and expanded edition provides a valuable and detailed summary of the many uses of diatoms in a wide range of applications in the environmental and earth sciences. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of diatoms in analysing ecological problems related to climate change, acidification, eutrophication, and other pollution issues. The chapters are divided into sections for easy reference, with separate sections covering indicators in different aquatic environments. A final section explores diatom use in other fields of study such as forensics, oil and gas exploration, nanotechnology, and archaeology. Sixteen new chapters have been added since the first edition, including introductory chapters on diatom biology and the numerical approaches used by diatomists. The extensive glossary has also been expanded and now includes over 1,000 detailed entries, which will help non-specialists to use the book effectively. |
Contents
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Numerical methods for the analysis of diatom | 23 |
Assessing environmental conditions in rivers | 57 |
Diatoms as indicators of longterm environmental | 86 |
Diatoms as indicators of surfacewater acidity | 98 |
Diatoms as indicators of lake eutrophication | 122 |
Diatoms as indicators of environmental change | 152 |
Freshwater diatoms as indicators of environmental dynamics with diatoms and other limnological | 497 |
Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in 27 Diatoms and archeology | 514 |
Sarah A Spaulding Bart Van deVijver Dominic A 28 Diatoms in oil and gas exploration | 523 |
Diatoms as indicators in marine and 29 Forensic science and diatoms | 534 |
Diatoms and environmental change in large 30 Toxic marine diatoms | 540 |
Applied diatom studies in estuaries and shallow 31 Diatoms as markers of atmospheric transport | 552 |
RosaTrobajo and Michael J Sullivan 32 Diatoms as nonnative species | 560 |
Estuarine paleoenvironmental reconstructions Sarah A Spaulding Cathy Kilroy and MarkB Edlund | 570 |
Diatoms as indicators of waterlevel change | 185 |
Diatoms in ancient lakes 209 PartV Other applications | 465 |
Diatoms as indicators in Arctic Antarctic 25 Diatoms as indicators of environmental change | 473 |
Holocene marine diatom records of environmental to the future | 611 |
Other editions - View all
The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences John P. Smol,Eugene F. Stoermer No preview available - 2010 |
The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences John P. Smol,Eugene F. Stoermer No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
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