SPEC 3. Eutrophication - Research and Application to Water Supply

Edited by D.W. Sutcliffe and J.G. Jones on behalf of the Freshwater Biological Association and the International Water Supply Association, London, UK

Published by The Freshwater Biological Association, Ambleside, 1992

224 pages

ISBN 978-0-900386-52-7

Price £24.00

Invited papers from a specialised conference held in London (UK) on 10-11 December 1991.

Contents:

• Introduction and opening remarks (H. Bernhardt)
• Eutrophication and the management of planktonic algae: what Vollenweider couldn't tell us (C.S. Reynolds)
• The impact of physical processes on algal growth (D.M. Imboden)
• The predicting power of models for eutrophication (G. van Straten)
• Structural dynamic eutrophication models (S.E. Jørgensen)
• The scope for biomanipulation in improving water quality (B. Moss)
• The control of indirect effects of biomanipulation (J. Benndorf)
• The significance of sedimentation and sediments to phytoplankton growth in drinking-water reservoirs (D. Uhlmann & H. Horn)
• Calcite covering of sediments as a possible way of curbing blue-green algae (H. Klapper)
• Development of trophic state and phytoplankton in an oligo-mesotrophic reservoir (Kleine Kinzig) in the northern Black Forest, Germany (E. Hoehn)
• Changes of water quality and sediment phosphorus of a small productive lake following decreased phosphorus loading (S.I. Heaney, J.E. Corry & J.P. Lishman)
• Eutrophication in the River Meuse (J.-P. Descy)
• Keys to species of case-bearing caddis larvae (one key for each family)
• A tool for better management of water quality during periods of algal blooms: the case of the River Oise (T. Vandevelde & V. Da Molo)
• The control of gas-vacuolate cyanobacteria (A.E. Walsby)
• Physical measures to inhibit planktonic cyanobacteria (C.E.W. Steinberg & E. Gruhl)
• Active reservoir management: a model solution (J. Hilton, A.E. Irish & C.S. Reynolds)
• Notes on collection, preservation and examination, and on general features of caddis larvae
• Management of Biesboch reservoirs for quality control with special reference to eutrophication (G. Oskam & L. van Breeman)
• Summary and concluding remarks (J.G. Jones)