Preface ....................................................... vii
Acknowledgements ............................................. viii
Contributors ................................................... ix
1 Introduction ................................................. 1
Brian Moss, Richard W. Battarbee and Martin Kernan
2 Aquatic Ecosystem Variability and Climate Change -
A Palaeoecological Perspective .............................. 15
Richard W. Battarbee
3 Direct Impacts of Climate Change on Freshwater Ecosystems ... 38
Ulrike Nickus, Kevin Bishop, Martin Erlandsson, Chris
D. Evans, Martin Forsius, Hjalmar Laudon, David M.
Livingstone, Don Monteith and Hansjörg Thies
4 Climate Change and the Hydrology and Morphology of
Freshwater Ecosystems ....................................... 65
Piet E.M. Verdonschot, Daniel Hering, John Murphy, Sonja
C. Jähnig, Neil L. Rose, Wolfram Graf, Karel Brabec and
Leonard Sandin
5 Monitoring the Responses of Freshwater Ecosystems to
Climate Change .............................................. 84
Daniel Hering, Alexandra Haidekker, Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber,
Tom Barker, Laetitia Buisson, Wolfram Graf, Gäel
Grenouillet, Armin Lorenz, Leonard Sandin and Sonja
Stendera
6 Interaction of Climate Change and Eutrophication ........... 119
Erik Jeppesen, Brian Moss, Helen Bennion, Laurence
Carvalho, Luc DeMeester, Heidrun Feuchtmayr, Nikolai
Friberg, Mark O. Gessner, Mariet Hefting, Torben L.
Lauridsen, Lone Liboriussen, Hilmar J. Malmquist, Linda
May, Mariana Meerhoff, Jon S. Olafsson, Merel B. Soons
and Jos T.A. Verhoeven
7 Interaction of Climate Change and Acid Deposition .......... 152
Richard F. Wright, Julian Aherne, Kevin Bishop, Peter
J. Dillon, Martin Erlandsson, Chris D. Evans, Martin
Forsius, David W. Hardekopf, Rachel C. Hellitvell, Jakub
Hruška, Mike Hutchins, Øyvind Kaste, Jiří Kopáček, Pavel
Krám, Hjalmar Laudon, Filip Moldan, Michela Rogora, Anne
Merete S. Sjøeng and Heleen A. de Wit
8 Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants and
Mercury in Freshwater Ecosystems Under Changing Climate
Conditions ................................................. 180
Joan O. Grimalt, Jordi Catalan, Pilar Fernandez, Benjami
Piña and John Munthe
9 Climate Change: Defining Reference Conditions and
Restoring Freshwater Ecosystems ............................ 203
Richard K. Johnson, Richard W. Battarbee, Helen Bennion,
Daniel Hering, Merel B. Soons and Jos T.A. Verhoeven
10 Modelling Catchment-Scale Responses to Climate Change ...... 236
Richard A. Skeffington, Andrew J. Wade, Paul G.
Whitehead, Dan Butterfield, Øyvind Kaste, Hans Estrup
Andersen, Katri Rankinen and Gaёl Grenouillet
11 Tools for Better Decision Making: Bridges from Science
to Policy .................................................. 262
Conor Linstead, Edward Maltby, Helle Ørsted Nielsen,
Thomas Horlitz, Phoebe Koundouri, Ekin Birol, Kyriaki
Remoundou, Ron Janssen and Philip J. Jones
12 What of the Future? ........................................ 285
Brian Moss
Index ......................................................... 300
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