Dead Zones - The Loss of Oxygen From Rivers, Lakes, Seas, and the Ocean

The number and size of dead zones, uninhabitable zones in our water, are on the rise. In this book, David L. Kirchman explains how they were discovered and what we can do to reduce their threat on human and aquatic life.

List of contents

• Prologue


• Chapter 1: The Great Stinks


• Chapter 2: Dead Zones Discovered in Coastal Waters


• Chapter 3: Coastal Dead Zones in the Past


• Chapter 4: What Happened in 1950?


• Chapter 5: Giving the Land a Lick


• Chapter 6: Liebig's Law and Haber's Tragedy


• Chapter 7: The Case for Phosphorus


• Chapter 8: Fish and Fisheries


• Chapter 9: Dead Zones in the Open Oceans


• Chapter 10: Reviving Dead Zones


• Acknowledgments


• Selected Bibliography


• Index

About the author

David L. Kirchman was Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies at the University of Delaware before his retirement in 2020. He holds a BA in biology from Lawrence University, an MS in environmental engineering from Harvard University, and a PhD in environmental engineering — with a focus on microbiology — also from Harvard University. He is a recipient of the Francis Alison Award and a fellow of the American Society for Microbiology and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. He is the editor of Microbial Ecology of the Oceans and the author of Processes in Microbial Ecology.

Summary

The number and size of dead zones, uninhabitable zones in our water, are on the rise. In this book, David L. Kirchman explains how they were discovered and what we can do to reduce their threat on human and aquatic life.

Additional text

Fertilizer madness, killer plankton blooms, hypoxia, anoxia, mass mortalities, and mayhem: This book tackles the only form of pollution — eutrophication — that is killing off entire coastal zones and beyond. It maps out the human-induced causes, introduces the major players involved in unraveling this long-unfolding detective story, and compellingly argues for why we should care and what might be done on this key environmental battlefront. A bookshelf must!

Product details

• Authors: David L. Kirchman, David L. (Maxwell P. And Mildred H. Harr Kirchman, Kirchman David L.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2021
• EAN: 9780197520376
• ISBN: 978-0-19-752037-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Sustainability, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Marine Biology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Pollution & threats to the environment, Conservation of the environment, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmentalist, Conservationist & Green Organizations, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations, Pollution and threats to the environment