Restoration and Management
of Tropical Eutrophic Lakes
Editor:
M. Vikram Reddy: Pondicherry University, India
Foreword:
Brian Moss: University Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
John Cairns, Jr: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Virginia, USA
ISBN 978-1-57808-370-1; 2005; 534 pages; $ 111.40
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Although freshwater lakes comprise only a tiny percentage of the water in the
hydrologic cycle, and are comparatively small in relation to the terrestrial
ecosystems that surround them, they are key ecological components whose importance
far outweighs their size. Furthermore, it is well established that the tropics
contain most of the world's species, all of which depend in some way upon the
hydrologic cycle of which lakes are an important part. Since tropical lakes
are markedly affected by ecological events on the terrestrial systems that surround
them, restoring and managing these lakes will require a substantial knowledge
of the activities on adjacent terrestrial systems and a holistic management
of both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in order to achieve the stated goals
and objectives.
This book is an essential knowledge base for both ecological restoration and
management. Although tropical lakes are not identical, and therefore require
individually developed and restoration and management practices; there are general
principles in both restoration and management that can be derived from the case
histories in this book and the limnological literature in general.
Contents:
Abiotic Environment
· A Habitat-based Approach to Catchment Assessment and Sustainable
Development in East African Freshwater Systems:
M. Everard et al.
· Surface Water Quality and Sediment Characteristics of the Eutrophic
Husainsagar Lake in Twin Cities of Hyderabad - Secunderbad, India:
M. Vikram
Reddy and Vijay Kumar
· Phosphorus and Eutrophication in a Subtropical Lake Basin: Lake
Chapala-Mexico:
Harvey Shear and Jose de Anda et al.
· Detergents and Eutrophication in Temperate Lakes: Relevance
to Tropical Aquatic Lake Environments with Reference to India:
N.K. Kaushik
· Natural Eutophication of a Shallow Tropical Freshwater Lake:
Impact and Possible Restoration Strategy:
V.P. Venugopalan et al.
Biotic Environment
· The Impact of Eutrophication on Lake Chivero, Zimbabwe: A Tropical
African Reservoir:
B.E. Marshall
· Invasive Aquatic Weeds and Eutrophication: The Case of Water
Hyacinth in Lake Victoria:
Adrian E. Williams and R.E. Hecky
· Phytoplankton Characteristics, Trophic Evolution and Nutrient
Dynamics in an Urban Eutrophic Lake: Kandy Lake in Sri Lanka:
E.I.L. Silva
· The Importance of Nutrient Input, Invertebrate Predation and
Oxygen Deficit Governing the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Plankton Community
in Tropical Reservoirs:
R.M. Pinto-Coelho et al.
· Eutrophication and its Influences on the Fish Fauna of Lake
Victoria:
F. Witte et al.
Restoration and Management
· Lake Restoration and Biomanipulation in Temperate Lakes: Relevance
for Subtropical and Tropical Lakes:
Erik Jeppesen et al.
· Using Biomanipulation to Control Eutrophication in a Shallow
Tropical Urban Reservoir (Lago Paranoa, Brazil):
Xavier Lazzaro and
Fernando
L.R.M. Starling
· Water Quality Amelioration in an Urban Eutrophic Lake by Preventing
Inflow of Municipal Sewage - A Case Study: Husainsagar Lake (Hyderabad, India):
M. Vikram Reddy and A. Vijaykumar
· Restoration of Tropical Urban Lakes - Case Study: Lake Pampulha,
Brazil:
Eduardo Von Sperling
· Dianchi Lake - A Hypereutophic Lake in China:
P.U. Peimin
