Overview
- Brings together the knowledge gained over two decades of multi-disciplinary scientific study, with the results of lake sediment research covering millennia, to show how the loch has changed and developed both naturally and as a result of human impact
- Because of the focus on a single site, at which a great deal of scientific study has been conducted, it allows an in-depth treatment of subjects that is not possible in texts dealing with these subjects more generally
- Provides more extensive and detailed background information for interested visitors to the area than standard guidebooks which are either short guides to a much wider region or designed specifically for one interest group (i.e. walking and climbing guides)
- Draws from a broad range of disciplines (geology, botany, zoology, climatology, meteorology, environmental chemistry) and time-frames (i.e. contemporary high resolution meteorological and hydrological data, to geological data, to future predictions of climate impacts)
Part of the book series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER, volume 12)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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An introduction to Lochnagar
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The Environmental Landscape of Lochnagar
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The Contemporary Physical and Biological Status of Lochnagar
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Anthropogenic Impacts from Atmospheric Pollutant Deposition
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About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Lochnagar brings together a wealth of information about a remote lake … . this volume brings together the best authorities in the field of (paleo-) limnology and related sciences—46 persons all in all—who have condensed the knowledge about Lochnager into 500 pages. … they have also added background information to each of the 19 chapters, which will make this book readable to non-specialists and students. … To help readers from other disciplines, the book contains an excellent glossary … ." (Roland Psenner, Journal of Paleolimnology, Vol. 40, 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Neil Rose’s first degree was in Chemistry with Geochemistry at University of Leicester (1981 – 1984). He then joined the British Antarctic Survey and spent 30 months in the Antarctic working on limnology of sub-Antarctic lakes and discovering the joys of lake sediment. Upon return to the UK, he joined the Palaeoecology Research Unit (later becoming the Environmental Change Research Centre - ECRC) at University College London as a Research Assistant. His PhD was awarded in July 1991 entitled "Fly-ash particles in lake sediments: Extraction, characterisation and distribution". Since then he has remained with the ECRC being appointed Principal Research Fellow in October 2001. His main research focus is in the use of lake sediments to determine spatial and temporal distributions of pollutants in remote lakes and this has led him to work in Svalbard, Greenland, Uganda, China, Alaska and many European mountain areas. Further research areas include the source apportionment of fly-ash particles and the use of SCP temporal profiles to provide lake sediment chronologies for the industrial period. His research at Lochnagar began in 1988 and shows no sign of stopping any time soon.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lochnagar
Book Subtitle: The Natural History of a Mountain Lake
Editors: Neil L. Rose
Series Title: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3986-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3900-3Published: 06 March 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8849-7Published: 14 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3986-7Published: 01 June 2007
Series ISSN: 1571-5299
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1672
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 503
Topics: Geoecology/Natural Processes, Hydrogeology, Paleontology, Climate Change, Climatology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology