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Water, and particularly the lack of it in clean, available and reliable form, has become a major environmental issue worldwide. For this reason and others, a comprehensive summary of up-to-date and accurate information on the Earth’s inland waters would be a highly valuable resource of critical information for scientists, students, managers and decision makers. To meet this need, we have prepared the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters.
The Encyclopedia of Inland Waters provides a comprehensive resource on the essence, complexity, diversity and importance of the inland waters (lakes, ponds, rivers, streams and wetlands) of the Earth. This major reference work is intended to summarize current knowledge and to capture the excitement about inland waters, from the distribution of water on Earth to properties of water, from the hydrologic cycle to the physics of water movement in lakes and rivers, to the value of aesthetics to water-borne disease, from metabolism of aquatic ecosystems to behavior of aquatic organisms, from pollution to conservation, from diversity of organisms to diversity and cycling of chemicals, and so forth.
The Encyclopedia of Inland Waters contains 264 articles organized into the following broad sections: Introductory Overviews, Properties of Water, Hydrology, Lakes of the World, Rivers and Streams of the World, Wetlands, Light and Heat, Hydrodynamics and Mixing, Inorganic Chemicals, Organic Compounds, Protists, Bacteria and Fungi, Algae, Zooplankton, Invertebrates, Vertebrates, Biological Integration Among Inland Aquatic Ecosystems, Air-Water and Land-Water Interactions, Pollution and Remediation, and Applied Aspects. Talented and dedicated Section Editors have assisted me in bringing this substantial project to fruition. Assembling an up-to-date and accurate information resource such as the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, requires a huge effort, but our team of excellent authors, the leadership and hard work of the Section Editors and the efforts of the Elsevier editorial staff has produced an extremely valuable resource of readily available information on the waters of the Earth.
Gene F. Likens, Editor-in-Chief
Gene F. Likens
Professor Gene E. Likens is an ecologist best known for the discovery of acid rain in North America, for co-founding the internationally renowned Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, and for founding the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, a leading international ecological research and education center. He has been awarded both the National Medal of Science and the Blue Planet Award.
Mark Benbow
Thomas M. Burton
John A. Downing
Ramesh Gulati
Dag Hessen
George M. Hornberger
Robert Howarth
Jack Jones
Tim Kratz
Winfried Lampert
William Lewis Jr.
Gene E. Likens
Andreas Lorke
Sally MacIntyre
Richard Merritt
Michel Meybeck
Michael Pace
Judit Padisák
Morten Søndergaard
Kenton Stewart
Frieda Taub
Ellen Van Donk
Ian J. Winfield
Thomas C. Winter
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