Eutrophication continues to be a major global challenge to water quality scientists. The global demand on water resources due to population increases, economic development, and emerging energy development schemes has created new environmental challenges to global sustainability. Eutrophication, causes, consequences, and control provides a current account of many important aspects of the processes of natural and accelerated eutrophication in major aquatic ecosystems around the world. The connections between accelerated eutrophication and climate change, chemical contamination of surface waters, and major environmental and ecological impacts on aquatic ecosystems are discussed. Water quality changes typical of eutrophication events in major climate zones including temperate, tropical, subtropical, and arid regions are included along with current approaches to treat and control increased eutrophication around the world. The book provides many useful new insights to address the challenges of global increases in eutrophication and the increasing threats to biodiversity and water quality.

Updates our current knowledge on global eutrophication and water pollution Provides useful case histories of global eutrophication events in different climate zones Provides important connections between climate, eutrophication, and threats to biodiversity

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Dr. Gill has several research papers, review articles and book chapters to his credit in the journals of national and international repute and in edited books. He was awarded Junior Scientist of the year award by National Environmental Science Academy New Delhi in 2008. Presently with Dr. Tuteja, Dr. Gill is working on heterotrimeric G proteins and plant DNA helicases to uncover the abiotic stress tolerance mechanism in rice. The transgenic plants overexpressing heterotrimeric G proteins and plant DNA helicases may be important for improving crop production at sub-optimal conditions.

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1. EUTROPHICATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE: PRESENT SITUATION AND FUTURE SCENARIOS

   Martin T. Dokulil and Katrin Teubner

   2 CONTROLLING EUTROPHICATION IN THE BALTIC SEA AND THE KATTEGAT

   Lars Håkanson and Andreas C. Bryhn

   3. EUTROPHICATION PROCESSES IN ARID CLIMATES

   Elias Salameh and Sura Harahsheh

   4. EUTROPHICATION AND RESTORATION OF SHALLOW LAKES FROM A COLD TEMPERATE TO A WARM MEDITERRANEAN AND A (SUB)TROPICAL CLIMATE

   Meryem Beklioglu, Mariana Meerfhoff and Erik Jeppesen

   5 TROPHIC STATE AND WATER QUALITY IN THE DANUBE FLOODPLAIN LAKE (KOPAKI RIT NATURE PARK, CROATIA) IN RELATION TO HYDROLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY

   Vesna Peri, Dubravka erba, Irella Bogut and Janja Horvati

   6 MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE AND EUTROPHICATION OF RESERVOIRS: LIMNOLOGICAL SKILLS TO IMPROVE MANAGEMENT

   Luigi Naselli-Flores

   7 EUTROPHICATION: THREAT TO AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS

   Abid Ali Ansari, Sarvajeet S. Gill and Fareed A. Khan

   8 EUTROPHICATION PROBLEM IN EGYPT

   Mohamed M. Dorgham

   9 FRESHWATER WETLAND EUTROPHICATION

   S. Sánchez-Carrillo, D.G. Angeler, M. Álvarez-cobelas and R. Sánchez-Andrés

   10 EFFECTS OF CONTAMINATION BY HEAVY METALS AND EUTROPHICATION ON ZOOPLANKTON, AND THEIR POSSIBLE EFFECTS ON THE TROPHIC WEBS OF FRESHWATER AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS

   Ana María Gagneten

   11 IMPACT OF EUTROPHICATION ON THE SEAGRASS ASSEMBLAGES OF THE MONDEGO ESTUARY (PORTUGAL)

   Marina Dolbeth, Patrícia Cardoso, Miguel Ângelo Pardal

   12 AQUATIC PLANT DIVERSITY IN EUTROPHIC ECOSYSTEMS

   Abid Ali Ansari, Fareed A. Khan, Sarvajeet S. Gill and Jyoti Varshney

   13 LINKING ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES AND EUTROPHICATION IN ESTUARIES: THE NEED OF RELIABLE INDICATORS

   Paula Castro and Helena Freitas

   14 SUCCESSFUL RESTORATION OF A SHALLOW URBAN LAKE: A CASE STUDY BASED ON BISTABLE THEORY

   Martin T. Dokulil, KarlDonabaum and Karin Pall

   15 BIOMANIPULATION IN LAKE AARUNGEN, NORWAY: A TOOL OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

   Chhatra Mani Sharma, Reidar Borgstrøm and Bjørn Olav Rosseland

   16 REASONS AND CONTROL OF EUTROPHICATION IN NEW RESERVOIRS

   Cuiling Jiang, Zhu Liqin, Hu Xiaoqin, Chen Junyu and Xie Minghua

   17 NUTRIENTS PHYTOREMEDIATION USING DUCKWEED

   Louis Landesman, Clifford Fedler and Runbin Duan

   18 NITROGEN REMOVAL FROM EUTROPHICATED WATER BY AQUATIC PLANTS

   Olga Babourina and Zed Rengel

   19 HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ACCELERATED EUTROPHICATION IN THE MEKONG RIVER WATERSHED

   Guy R. Lanza