The diatoms : applications for the environmental and earth sciences / edited by John Smol, Eugene Stoermer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smol, J. P. (John P.), editor.

Stoermer, Eugene F., 1934- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diatoms.

Diatoms--Ecology.

Plant indicators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 667 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Applications and uses of diatoms : prologue / John P. Smol, Eugene F. Sotermer

The diatoms : a primer / Matthew L. Julius, Edward C. Theriot

Numerical methods for the analysis of diatom assemblage data / H. John B. Birks

Assessing environmental conditions in rivers and streams with diatoms / R. Jan Stevenson, Yangdong Pan, Herman van Dam

Diatoms as indicators of long-term environmental change in rivers, fluvial lakes, and impoundments / Euan D. Reavie, Mark B. Edlund

Diatoms as indicators of surface-water acidity / Richard W. Battarbee ... [et al.]

Diatoms as indicators of lake eutrophication / Roland I. Hall, John P. Smol

Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in shallow lakes / Helen Bennion ... [et al.]

Diatoms as indicators of water-level change in freshwater lakes / Julie A. Wolin, Jeffery R. Stone

Diatoms as indicators of hydrologic and climatic change in saline lakes / Sheri C. Fritz ... [et al.]

Diatoms in ancient lakes / Anson W. Mackay, Mark B. Edlund, Galina Khursevich

Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in subarctic and alpine regions / Andre F. Lotter, Reinhard Pienitz, Roland Schmidt

Freshwater diatoms as indicators of environmental change in the High Arctic / Marianne S.V. Douglas, John P. Smol

Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in Antarctic and subantarctic freshwaters / Sarah A. Spaulding ... [et al.]

Diatoms and environmental change in large brackish-water ecosystems / Pauline Snoeijs, Kaarina Weckstrom

Applied diatom studies in estuaries and shallow coastal environments / Rosa Trabajo, Michael J. Sullivan

Estuarine paleoenvironmental reconstructions using diatoms / Sherri Cooper, Evelyn Gaiser, Anna Wachnicka

Diatoms on coral reefs and in tropical marine lakes / Christopher S. Lobban, Richard W. Jordan

Diatoms as indicators of former sea levels, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes / Benjamin P. Horton, Yuki Sawai

Marine diatoms as indicators of modern changes in oceanographic conditions / Oscar E. Romero, Leanne K. Armand

Holocene marine diatom records of environmental change / Amy Leventer, Xavier Crosta, Jennifer Pike

Diatoms as indicators of paleoceanographic events / Richard W. Jordan, Catherine E. Stickley

Reconsidering the meaning of biogenic silica accumulation rates in the glacial Southern Ocean / Christina L. De La Rocha, Olivier Ragueneau, Aude Leynaert

Diatoms of aerial habitats / Jeffrey R. Johansen

Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in wetlands and peatlands / Evelyn Gaiser, Kathleen Ruhland

Tracking fish, seabirds, and wildlife population dynamics with diatoms and other limnological indicators / Irene Gregory-Eaves, Bronwyn E. Keatley

Diatoms and archaeology / Steve Juggins, Nigel G. Cameron

Diatoms in oil and gas exploration / William N. Krebs, Andrey Yu. Gladenkov, Gareth D. Jones

Forensic science and diatoms / Anthony J. Peabody, Nigel G. Cameron

Toxic marine diatoms / Maria Celia Villac, Gregory J. Doucette, Irena Kaczmarska

Diatoms as markers of atmospheric transport / Margaret A. Harper, Robert M. McKay

Diatoms as non-native species / Sarah A. Spaulding, Cathy Kilroy, Mark B. Edlund

Diatomite / David M. Harwood

Stable isotopes from diatom silica / Melanie J. Leng, George E.A. Swann

Diatoms and nanotechnology : early history and imagined future as seen through patents / Richard Gordon

Epilogue : reflections on the past and a view to the future / John P. Smol, Eugene F. Stoermer.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-85106-5

1-316-08721-2

1-282-79770-0

9786612797705

0-511-76317-4

0-511-90888-1

0-511-90965-9

0-511-90685-4

0-511-90557-2

0-511-90814-8

OCLC:

669127009