The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries
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In 1974, John R. Vallentyne predicted that by the year 2000 we would be living in an environmental disaster he called the Algal Bowl. Just as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was created by misusing western farmland, he forecast that the continuing miuse of lakes could only lead to water degradation. In the first edition of The Algal Bowl: Lakes and Man, he explained how the biology of lakes is changed by an overload of nutrients - a process known as eutrophication...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1844076237
ISBN13:9781844076239
Release Date:November 2008
Publisher:Routledge
Length:348 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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