The book " Lake sciences and climate change " deals with several aspects of lake sciences
(botany, zoology, geology, chemistry, models, morphology, and physiography), as well as
the effect of climatic changes on lake body ecosystem. The book is divided into three sections
and structured into 10 chapters. The first section "Lake and Climatic Change" represents
three chapters:
Chapter 1 overviews on climatic change in a large shallow tropical Lake Chapala, Mexico.
Chapter 2 deals with the relationship between water levels in the North American Great
Lakes and climate indices. Chapter 3 shows the Lake La Salada de Chiprana (NE Spain) as
an example of an thalassic salt lake in a cultural landscape. The second section "Lake Biology
and Health" discusses three chapters in detail: Chapter 1 assesses health condition with
oxidative stress biomarkers in sentinel organisms in shallow lakes of the Mexican Central
Plateau. Chapter 2 discusses variations in the zooplankton species structure of an eutrophic
Lake. Chapter 3 discusses phycoremediation of eutrophic lakes using diatom algae. The
third section "Water quality, management and modeling" contains four chapters: Chapter 1
discusses adaptive management of an imperiled catostomid in Lake Mohave, Lower Colorado
River, USA. Chapter 2 discusses chemometric analysis of wetlands remnants of the former
Texcoco Lake, a multivariate approach. Chapter 3 describes fuzzy logic as a tool to
assess water quality for reservoirs, a regional perspective (Lerma river basin, Mexico). Chapter
4 deals with water quality modeling of Northern Lakes case study (Egyptian Northern
Lakes).
أ.د. محمد نجيب راشد | Prof. Dr.Mohamed Nageeb Rashed | 4045