Perspectives in Southern Hemisphere limnology: Introduction

✍ Scribed by B. R. Davies; R. D. Walmsley

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 469 KB
• Volume: 125
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5141
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00045922

✦ Synopsis

The objectives and rationale of the First International Symposium on Southern Hemisphere Limnology are outlined. The geography and climate of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are compared. Greater areas of the land masses in the Southern Hemisphere fall under oceanic influence than in the Northern Hemisphere at equivalent latitude. Although many Southern Hemisphere land masses are arid it is concluded that limnological differences between the Hemispheres are of degree rather than of kind and that limnological principles developed in the Northern Hemisphere are, in general, globally applicable. However, Southern Hemisphere water resources management problems have centred upon arid-land water supply problems, probably to the detriment of 'pure' limnological research.