The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries - Couverture souple

Schindler, David W.; Vallentyne, John R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0888644841 ISBN 13 : 9780888644848

Editeur : University of Alberta Press, 2008

Synopsis

The greatest threat to water quality worldwide is nutrient pollution. Cultural eutrophication by nutrients in sewage, fertilizers, and detergents is feeding massive algal blooms, choking out aquatic life and outpacing heavy metals, oil spills, and other toxins in the devastation wrought upon the world's fresh waters. Renowned water scientists, David W. Schindler and John R. Vallentyne, share their combined 80 years of experience with the eutrophication problem to explain its history and science, and offer real-world solutions for mitigating this catastrophe in the making. For those who have lost sight of Vallentyne's 1974 first edition, Schindler's fully revised and expanded edition is an unambiguous road map for change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John R. Vallentyne (PhD, Yale) taught biology before helping to establish new centres of freshwater research in Manitoba and Ontario. Dr. Vallentyne was at the centre of the investigation of pollution in the Lower Great Lakes and later was Senior Scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Among his many awards was a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Alberta Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0888644841
• ISBN 13: 9780888644848
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
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