The diatoms : applications for the environmental and earth sciences

✍ Scribed by J P Smol; Eugene F Stoermer

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 687
• Edition: 2ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Part I. Introduction: 1. Applications and uses of diatoms: prologue / John P. Smol and Eugene F. Stoermer; 2. The diatoms: a primer / Matthew L. Julius and Edward C. Theriot; 2. Numerical methods for the analysis of diatom assemblage data / H. John B. Birks --
Part II. Diatoms as Indicators of Environmental Change in Flowing Waters and Lakes: 4. Assessing environmental conditions in rivers and streams with diatoms / R. Jan Steveson, Yangdong Pan, and Herman van Dam; 5. t Diatoms as indicators of long-term environmental change in rivers, fluvial lakes and impoundments / Euan D. Reavie and Mark B. Edlund; 6. Diatoms as indicators of surface-water acidity / Richard W. Battarbee [and others]; 7. Diatoms as indicators of lake eutrophication / Roland I. Hall and John P. Smol; 8. Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in shallow lakes / Helen Bennion [and others]; 9. Diatoms as indicators of water-level change in freshwater lakes / Julie A. Wolin and Jeffery R. Stone; 10. Diatoms as indicators of hydrologic and climatic change in saline lakes / Sheri C. Fritz [and others]; 11. Diatoms in ancient lakes / Anson W. Mackay, Mark B. Edlund, and Galina Khursevich --
Part III. Diatoms as Indicators in Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Lacustrine Environments: 12. Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in subarctic and alpine regions / André F. Lotter, Reinhard Pienitz, and Roland Schmidt; 13. Freshwater diatoms as indicators of environmental change in the High Arctic / Marianne S.V. Douglas and John P. Smol; 14.0 Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in Antarctic and subantarctic freshwaters / Sarah A. Spaulding [and others] --
Part IV. Diatoms as Indicators in Marine and Estuarine Environments: 15. Diatoms and environmental change in large brackish-water ecosystems / Pauline Snoeijs and Kaarina Weckström; 16. Applied diatom studies in estuaries and shallow coastal environments / Rose Trobajo and Michael J. Sullivan; 17. Estuarine paleoenvironmental reconstructions using diatoms / Sherri Cooper, Evelyn Gaiser, and Anna Wachnicka; 18. Diatoms on coral reefs and in tropical marine lakes / Christopher S. Lobban and Richard W. Jordan; 19. Diatoms as indicators of former sea levels, earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes / Benjamin P. Horton and Yuki Sawai; 20. Marine diatoms as indicators of modern changes in oceanographic conditions / Oscar E. Romero and Leanne K. Armand; 21. Holocene marine diatom records of environmental change / Amy Leventer, Xavier Crosta, and Jennifer Pike; 22. Diatoms as indicators of paleoceanographic events / Richard W. Jordan and Catherine E. Stickley; 23. Reconsidering the meaning of biogenic silica accumulation rates in the glacial Southern Ocean / Christina L. De La Rocha, Olivier Ragueneau, and Aude Leynaen --
Part V. Other applications: 24. Diatoms of aerial habitats / Jeffrey R. Johansen; 25. Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in wetlands and peatlands / Evelyn Gaiser and Kathleen Rühland; 26. Tracking fish, seabirds, and wildlife population dynamics with diatoms and other limnological indicators / Irene Gregory-Eaves and Bronwyn E. Keatley; 27. Diatoms and archaeology / Steve Juggins and Nigel G. Cameron; 28. Diatoms in oil and gas exploration / William N. Krebs, Andrey Yu. Gladenkov, and Gareth D. Jones; 29. Forensic science and diatoms / Anthony J. Peabody and Nigel G. Cameron; 30. Toxic marine diatoms / Maria Célia Villac, Gregory J. Doucette, and Irena Kaczmarska; 31. Diatoms as markers of atmospheric transport / Margaret A. Harper and Robert M. McKay; 32. Diatoms as nonnative species / Sarah A. Spaulding, Cathy Kilroy, and Mark B. Edlund; 33. Diatomite / David M. Harwood; 34. Stable isotopes from diatom silica / Melanie J. Leng and George E.A. Swann; 35. Diatoms and nanotechnology: early history and imagined future as seen through patents / Richard Gordon --
Part VI. Conclusions: 26. Epilogue: reflections on the past and a view to the future / John P. Smol and Eugene F. Stoermer.
Abstract:

A much revised and greatly extended compilation of the expanding uses of diatoms in the environmental and earth sciences. Read more...