Format:
Online-Ressource (XXX, 744 p. 370 illus., 104 illus. in color, digital)
ISBN:
9789400717831
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Content:
Lake Biwa is one of the world's oldest lakes and this book offers the first complete compilation of the interaction between humans and nature around the lake. It describes all current problems and their solutions associated with Lake Biwa
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Description based upon print version of record
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Lake Biwa: Interactions between Nature and People; Preface; References; Profile of Lake Biwa; References; Topic 1 The Naming of Lake Biwa; Contents; Color Plates; 1: Geological History and Transition of the Biota of Lake BiwaKeiichi Takahashi; 1.1 Geomorphology of Lake Biwa and the Surrounding Region; Introduction; Hills and Terraces; Topographic Development and Alluvium in the Coastal Plain; Sublacustrine Active Fault of Lake Biwa; 1.2 Geological History of Lake Biwa; Introduction; Kobiwako Group; Beneath the Lake Bottom; Early Paleo-lake; Reduction and Disappearance of the Lake
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At the Present PositionLake Biwa as a Recorder of Environmental Changes; Relationship Between the Japanese Islands and the Asian Continent; 1.3 Origin and Temporal Succession of the Cyprinid Fish Fauna in Lake Biwa; Introduction; Origin of the Iga Cyprinid Fauna; Geotectonic History of Lake Biwa; Temporal succession of cyprinid fauna in Paleo-lake Biwa; Appearance of the Endemic Species and Extinction of Old Elements of Iga Cyprinid Fauna; Fish Remains from Archaeological Sites Around Lake Biwa; Conclusions; Topic 2 Fossil Biwa Catfish, Silurus biwaensis , from Paleo-lake Biwa; References
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2: Biodiversity of Lake BiwaBiodiversity Survey in Lake Biwa; Species Diversity in Lake Biwa; 2.1 Protozoa of Lake Biwa; Introduction; Ciliates with Symbiotic Algae; Difflugia biwae : A Protozoa Long Believed to Be Endemic to Lake Biwa; Recently Described Ciliate Species from Lake Biwa; Endemism Versus Cosmopolitan in Microorganisms; 2.2 Characteristics of the Phytoplankton Flora and Long-term Changes in the Phytoplankton Community of Lake Biwa; Introduction; Phytoplankton Flora in Lake Biwa; Changes in Phytoplankton Communities Through the Process of Eutrophication
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Blooms of Cyanobacterial PicoplanktonChanges in Phytoplankton Communities in the North Basin of Lake Biwa During the Past Three Decades; Characteristics of the Rotifer Fauna of Lake Biwa; 2.3 Submerged and Waterside Plant Changes; 2.3.1 Submerged Macrophyte Flora and its Long-term Changes; Introduction; Submerged Macrophyte Flora; Changes in Dominant Species; Distribution and Growth Environment; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 2.3.2 Wetland Plants Growing on the Shore of Lake Biwa: Littoral, Hygrophyte , and Psychrophyte Floras; Introduction; Inland Species Richness of Littoral Plants
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Genya Plant Dependency on Large, Wet MeadowsPsychrophyte Relicts; Threats for Wetland Flora; Acknowledgments; 2.4 Benthic and Pelagic Invertebrate Fauna of Lake Biwa; 2.4.1 Diversity and Distribution of Freshwater Sponges (Porifera: Spongillidae) in Lake Biwa; Introduction; History of Research on Freshwater Sponges in Lake Biwa; The Taxonomic Problem of Freshwater Sponges in Lake Biwa; Distribution of Freshwater Sponges in Lake Biwa; Relationship between People and Freshwater Sponges in Lake Biwa; 2.4.2 Flatworms ("Turbellarians") and Ribbon Worms (Nemerteans) of Lake Biwa
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Flatworms: A Short History of the Study of "Turbellaria" in Lake Biwa
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789400717824
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. ISBN 978-94-007-1782-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-1783-1
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