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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.
Sommario
- 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
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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.
Riassunto
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.
Testo aggiuntivo
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!
