John P. Smol 
Pollution of Lakes and Rivers 
A Paleoenvironmental Perspective

Now in its second edition, Pollution of Lakes and Rivers
provides essential insights into present-day water quality problems
from an international perspective.

* Explains simply and effectively how lake sediments can be used
to reconstruct pollution history

* Includes over 200 additional references and a new chapter on
recent climatic change and its effects on water quality and
quantity

* Tackles present-day water quality problems from an
international perspective

* Previously published by Hodder Arnold



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Reviews:

‚This is a very well-written and wide-ranging volume that is
both instructive and topical. It is likely to prove useful as an
introduction to the general area, a reference source and for
teaching purposes.‘ (The Holocene, November 2008)

‚If you thought that paleolimnology was just mud, pollen, and
diatoms then you will likely be both struck by the complexity of
this field of research and grateful that John Smol, FRSC, has
described it so clearly and broadly. Simply put, the second edition
is an excellent book.‘ ( Journal of Phycology, 2008)

‚This is a useful text. It provides a good level of detail
so that the beginner in this area can appreciate what
palaeolimnology can (and cannot) achieve. It goes beyond the simple
introduction to provide a detailed understanding of how techniques
can be applied … This is a different take on the usual pollution
text and would be of great use to those wishing to understand more
from sedimentary records.‘ Taken from the British
Ecological Society’s Teaching Ecology website

‚John Smol has extensive experience in this field of
paleoenvironmental research which he combines well with his
excellent written communication skills to produce a text that is
easy to read but also thought provoking.‘ (Quaternary
Science Reviews, 2009)

‚The breadth of coverage in this text is
impressive.‘ (Lake and Reservoir Management,
2009)

‚If I could speak with fluidity and clarity in my lectures
as consistently as John Smol writes my students would be very
grateful.‘ (Journal of Paleolimnology, 2009)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the second edition.

About the author.

1 There is no substitute for water.

2 How long is long?.

3 Sediments: an ecosystem’s memory.

4 Retrieving the sedimentary archive and establishing the
geochronological clock: collecting and dating sediment cores.

5 Reading the records stored in sediments: the present is a key
to the past.

6 The paleolimnologist’s Rosetta Stone: calibrating
indicators to environmental variables using surface-sediment
training sets.

7 Acidification: finding the ’smoking gun‘.

8 Metals, technological development, and the environment.

9 Persistent organic pollutants: industrially synthesized
chemicals ‚hopping‘ across the planet.

10 Mercury – ‚the metal that slipped
away‘.

11 Eutrophication: the environmental consequences of
over-fertilization.

12 Erosion: tracking the accelerated movement of material from
land to water.

13 Species invasions, biomanipulations, and extirpations.

14 Greenhouse gas emissions and a changing atmosphere: tracking
the effects of climatic change on water resources.

15 Ozone depletion, acid rain, and climatic warming: the
problems of multiple stressors.

16 New problems, new challenges.

17 Paleolimnology: a window on the past, a key to our
future.

Glossary.

References.

Index

Über den Autor

John P. Smol FRSC is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, with a cross-appointment at the School of Environmental Studies. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change, and is the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Environmental Reviews and is the founding editor of the Journal of Paleolimnology, which he edited from 1987 to 2007