Eutrophication: causes, consequences and control

Eutrophication continues to be a major global challenge to water quality scientists. This volume provides an updated review of current knowledge on global eutrophication and water pollution, and makes crucial connections between the climate, eutrophication, and threats to biodiversity.

Eutrophication continues to be a major global challenge to water quality scientists. The global demand on water resources due to population increases, economic development, and emerging energy development schemes has created new environmental challenges to global sustainability. Eutrophication, causes, consequences, and control provides a current account of many important aspects of the processes of natural and accelerated eutrophication in major aquatic ecosystems around the world. The connections between accelerated eutrophication and climate change, chemical contamination of surface waters, and major environmental and ecological impacts on aquatic ecosystems are discussed. Water quality changes typical of eutrophication events in major climate zones including temperate, tropical, subtropical, and arid regions are included along with current approaches to treat and control increased eutrophication around the world. The book provides many useful new insights to address the challenges of global increases in eutrophication and the increasing threats to biodiversity and water quality.

1. EUTROPHICATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE: PRESENT SITUATION AND FUTURE SCENARIOS

Martin T. Dokulil and Katrin Teubner

2 CONTROLLING EUTROPHICATION IN THE BALTIC SEA AND THE KATTEGAT

Lars Håkanson and Andreas C. Bryhn

3. EUTROPHICATION PROCESSES IN ARID CLIMATES

Elias Salameh and Sura Harahsheh

4. EUTROPHICATION AND RESTORATION OF SHALLOW LAKES FROM A COLD TEMPERATE TO A WARM MEDITERRANEAN AND A (SUB)TROPICAL CLIMATE

Meryem Beklioglu, Mariana Meerfhoff and Erik Jeppesen

5 TROPHIC STATE AND WATER QUALITY IN THE DANUBE FLOODPLAIN LAKE (KOPAČKI RIT NATURE PARK, CROATIA) IN RELATION TO HYDROLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY

Vesna Peršić, Dubravka Čerba, Irella Bogut and Janja Horvatić

6 MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE AND EUTROPHICATION OF RESERVOIRS: LIMNOLOGICAL SKILLS TO IMPROVE MANAGEMENT

Luigi Naselli-Flores

7 EUTROPHICATION: THREAT TO AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS

Abid Ali Ansari, Sarvajeet S. Gill and Fareed A. Khan

8 EUTROPHICATION PROBLEM IN EGYPT

Mohamed M. Dorgham

9 FRESHWATER WETLAND EUTROPHICATION

S. Sánchez-Carrillo, D.G. Angeler, M. Álvarez-cobelas and R. Sánchez-Andrés

10 EFFECTS OF CONTAMINATION BY HEAVY METALS AND EUTROPHICATION ON ZOOPLANKTON, AND THEIR POSSIBLE EFFECTS ON THE TROPHIC WEBS OF FRESHWATER AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS

Ana María Gagneten

11 IMPACT OF EUTROPHICATION ON THE SEAGRASS ASSEMBLAGES OF THE MONDEGO ESTUARY (PORTUGAL)

Marina Dolbeth, Patrícia Cardoso, Miguel Ângelo Pardal

12 AQUATIC PLANT DIVERSITY IN EUTROPHIC ECOSYSTEMS

Abid Ali Ansari, Fareed A. Khan, Sarvajeet S. Gill and Jyoti Varshney

13 LINKING ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES AND EUTROPHICATION IN ESTUARIES: THE NEED OF RELIABLE INDICATORS

Paula Castro and Helena Freitas

14 SUCCESSFUL RESTORATION OF A SHALLOW URBAN LAKE: A CASE STUDY BASED ON BISTABLE THEORY

Martin T. Dokulil, KarlDonabaum and Karin Pall

15 BIOMANIPULATION IN LAKE AARUNGEN, NORWAY: A TOOL OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Chhatra Mani Sharma, Reidar Borgstrøm and Bjørn Olav Rosseland

16 REASONS AND CONTROL OF EUTROPHICATION IN NEW RESERVOIRS

Cuiling Jiang, Zhu Liqin, Hu Xiaoqin, Chen Junyu and Xie Minghua

17 NUTRIENTS PHYTOREMEDIATION USING DUCKWEED

Louis Landesman, Clifford Fedler and Runbin Duan

18 NITROGEN REMOVAL FROM EUTROPHICATED WATER BY AQUATIC PLANTS

Olga Babourina and Zed Rengel

19 HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ACCELERATED EUTROPHICATION IN THE MEKONG RIVER WATERSHED

Guy R. Lanza