The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences
ISBN: 9780521509961 | 0521509963
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. Date: 11/1/2010
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This much revised and expanded edition provides an up-to-date summary of the many uses of diatoms in a wide range of applications, including indicators of environmental change. An extensive glossary allows even non-specialists to use the book effectively.
A much revised and greatly extended compilation of the expanding uses of diatoms in the environmental and earth sciences.
A much revised and greatly extended compilation of the expanding uses of diatoms in the environmental and earth sciences.
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Applications and uses of diatoms: prologue | |
| The diatoms: a primer | |
| Numerical methods for the analysis of diatom assemblage data | |
| Diatoms as Indicators of Environmental Change in Flowing Waters and Lakes | |
| Assessing environmental conditions in rivers and streams with diatoms | |
| Diatoms as indicators of long-term environmental change in riv... MORE | |
| Diatoms as indicators of surface-water acidity | |
| Diatoms as indicators of lake eutrophication | |
| Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in shallow lakes | |
| Diatoms as indicators of water-level change in freshwater lakes | |
| Diatoms as indicators of hydrologic and climatic change in saline lakes | |
| Diatoms in ancient lakes | |
| Diatoms as Indicators in Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Lacustrine Environments | |
| Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in subarctic and alpine regions | |
| Freshwater diatoms as indicators of environmental change in the High Arctic | |
| Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in Antarctic and subantarctic freshwaters | |
| Diatoms as Indicators in Marine and Estuarine Environments | |
| Diatoms and environmental change in large brackish-water ecosystems | |
| Applied diatom studies in estuaries and shallow coastal environments | |
| Estuarine paleoenvironmental reconstructions using diatoms | |
| Diatoms on coral reefs and in tropical marine lakes | |
| Diatoms as indicators of former sea levels, earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes | |
| Marine diatoms as indicators of modern changes in oceanographic conditions | |
| Holocene marine diatom records of environmental change | |
| Diatoms as indicators of paleoceanographic events | |
| Reconsidering the meaning of biogenic silica accumulation rates in the glacial Southern Ocean | |
| Other Applications | |
| Diatoms of aerial habitats | |
| Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in wetlands and peatlands | |
| Tracking fish, seabirds, and wildlife population dynamics with diatoms and other limnological indicators | |
| Diatoms and archaeology | |
| Diatoms in oil and gas exploration | |
| Forensic science and diatoms | |
| Toxic marine diatoms | |
| Diatoms as markers of atmospheric transport | |
| Diatoms as nonnative species | |
| Diatomite | |
| Stable isotopes from diatom silica | |
| Diatoms and nanotechnology: early history and imagined future as seen through patents | |
| Conclusions | |
| Epilogue: a view to the future | |
| Glossary, acronyms, and abbreviations | |
| Index | |
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