Overview
- Integrates leading technologies, models, indigenous knowledge, and citizen science on lake restoration
- Shows how these contemporary lake restoration tools may be applied practically for solutions to water quality problem
- Provides inter-disciplinary understanding across the natural and social sciences
- Addresses diffuse pollution, invasive species and climate change
- Synthesises information on lake restoration at the local (New Zealand) scale and provides an international context for this information
- With contributions from leading authorities across the globe
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About the editors
Kevin Collier is a freshwater ecologist at the University of Waikato who has worked across the science-management interface for over 30 years. He has previously co-edited books synthesising ecological knowledge of New Zealand freshwater invertebrates (2000) and the country's longest river, the Waikato River (2010). He is associate editor on two international journals.
John Quinn is an aquatic ecologist who has been Chief Scientist for Freshwater and Estuaries at NIWA since 2015. Over the previous 20 years, he led cross-institute, interdisciplinary, research programmes on river, lake and estuary restoration, river ecosystems and land use interactions and managing forest harvest impacts on streams. He has been a guest editor of two special issues of scientific journals focused on the outputs of these programmes.
Clive Howard-Williams is currently Chief Science Advisor (Natural Resources) at New Zealand's National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research. He has published widely on freshwater ecosystems from tropical to polar regions, and has led research programmes on wetland, lake and estuarine ecosystems. He has also been involved in freshwater consultancy work on freshwater restoration. Clive has been the guesteditor of several books and journal special issues related to aquatic ecology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lake Restoration Handbook
Book Subtitle: A New Zealand Perspective
Editors: David P. Hamilton, Kevin J. Collier, John M. Quinn, Clive Howard-Williams
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93043-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93042-8Published: 07 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93043-5Published: 29 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 599
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 123 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecology, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Nature Conservation, Environmental Management, Geoecology/Natural Processes