Aquatic Ecosystems in a Changing World

Aquatic Ecosystems in a Changing World: From Inland to Estuarine Waters focuses on anthropogenic and climatic drivers of global change impacting freshwater and estuarine aquatic ecosystems. The book presents a diverse series of critical reviews on key global environmental change issues, on how aquatic ecosystems are coping with the lesser or bigger extent of adverse effects, on adaptation and mitigation strategies, and on the challenges underway or foreseen. These challenges include regulatory issues under national and international legislation and the role society (namely local communities) may play towards advances in public awareness, scientific knowledge and global change actions.

Throughout the nine contributed chapters, all global challenges are covered in a comprehensive way, without focusing on specific organism or habitats so that the message to the readers is global, while signaling hot topics. This book is intended to be of interest to researchers and (under)graduate students in the areas of Limnology, Ecology and aquatic risk management.