Encyclopedia of Inland Waters

Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Second Edition, Three Volume Set focuses on a variety of key areas surrounding inland waters, including the distribution of water on Earth, the properties of water, including the hydrologic cycle, the physics of water movement in lakes and rivers, the value of aesthetics to waterborne disease, metabolism of aquatic ecosystems and behavior of aquatic organisms, pollution conservation, diversity of organisms, and diversity and cycling of chemicals. New coverage of advances in the field over the last decade from the structures, functions, values of, and pressures on rivers, lakes, wetlands and ground waters, to the underlying concepts and theories are also included. Rather than a previously outdated A-Z approach used to list articles, the new edition has 270 articles―an increase of 10% from previously-arranged via a taxonomic approach within 7 thematic sections, thus allowing for greater serendipity and ease of navigation for the user. The book's Editors-in-Chief will put specific emphasis on the diversity of the entire team in respect to expertise, age, gender and geographic distribution. Review The most comprehensive reference in the field of inland waters, bringing readers up-to-date with this rapidly advancing and global field About the Author Klement Tockner is president of the Austrian Science Fund – FWF, full professor of Aquatic Ecology at the Freie Universität Berlin and former director of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin. He received a PhD from the University of Vienna (1993) and a Titulary Professorship at ETH (2005). He is an internationally leading freshwater scientist, in particular in the research domains biodiversity, ecosystem science and environmental management. He was Editor in Chief of the journal Aquatic Sciences and is Subject Editor of the journal Ecosystems. He has published more than 250 scientific papers including 150 ISI papers. In 2009, he edited a comprehensive book on European Rivers (Rivers of Europe, Elsevier). Klement Tockner has successfully managed large inter- and transdisciplinary projects such as the EC-funded project BioFresh (www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu). He is member of several scientific committees and advisory boards and elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Germany Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. Thomas Mehner is vice director and senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, Germany. He is limnologist and fisheries biologist by training, has got his PhD at the University of Rostock in 1992, and has received his habilitation in limnology in 1999. He has published about 170 ISI papers, with focus on fish communities, lake food webs, and evolutionary and behavioural ecology of aquatic organisms. He has been Handling Editor of ‘Aquatic Ecology’ and ‘Freshwater Biology’ for several years, and he is currently member of the Editorial Boards of ‘Global Change Biology’ and ‘Limnologica’. Since spring 2018, he has been the president of the International Society of Limnology (SIL). Thomas Mehner has taught courses on Limnology, Fish Ecology, Fisheries Management, Behaviour and Evolution, and Scientific Writing. He has trained many MSc and PhD students, and is actively mentoring undergraduates, graduates and post-doc researchers.