Managing the ecosystem

Abstract

Much of the work presented in this book has been invoked by the need to find ways of restoring shallow lakes, but the emphasis in the text has been on unravelling the mechanisms rather than on the direct application to lake management. This chapter reviews the main points from an applied point of view. It is not meant as a practical guide for lake restoration. Several such guides including information on material, costs and legislation are available now. A good general treatise on reservoir and lake management is the work by Cooke and co-authors (Cooke et al.,1993). Restoration guides that are more directed towards shallow lake problems are published in The Netherlands (Hosper et al., 1992) and England (Moss et al.,1996).