Call number:
AWI G10 02-0075
Description / Table of Contents:
Table of Contents: Preface. - Introduction. - PART 1 PALEOENVIRONMENT AND RIFT BASIN HISTORY. - 1. Baikal drilling project. - 2. Changes in the Lake Baikal levels and runoff direction in the Quaternary period. - 3. Paleomagnetic and rock-magnetic studies on Lake Baikal sediments: BDP 96 borehole at Academician Ridge. - 4. Paleoclimatic signals printed in Lake Baikal sediments. - 5. Glaciations of central Asia in the late Cenosoic according to the sedimentary record from Lake Baikal. - 6. Palaeoclimatic changes from 3.6 to 2.2 Ma B. P. derived from palynological studies on Lake Baikal sediments. - 7. TEM analysis of smectite-illite mixed layer minerals of core BDP 96 Hole 1: preliminary results. - 8. Forest-desert alternation history revealed by pollen-record in Lake Baikal over the past 5 million years. - 9. Vegetation history of the southeastern and eastern coasts of Lake Baikal from bog sediments since the last interstade. - 10. Estimation of paleoenvironmental changes in the Eurasian continental interior during the past 5 million years inferred from organic components in the BDP 96 Hole 1 sediment core from Lake Baikal. - 11. Paleoenvironmental change in the Eurasian continent interior inferred from chemcial elements in sediment cores (BDP96/1, BDP96/2) from Lake Baikal. - 12. A new preparation method for qualitative and quantitative analysis of fossil sponge spicules by light microscope. - 13. Evolution of freshwater centric diatoms within the Baikal rift zone during the late Cenozoic. - PART 2 PHYSIOCHEMICAL LIMNOLOGY. - 14. Elemental composition of short sediment cores and ferromanganese concretions from Lake Baikal. - 15. Mercury distribution in the bottom and stream sediments of Lake Baikal, water reservoirs of the Angara river cascade, and the adjacent drainage basins. - 16. Correlation between geochemical features of recent bottom and stream sediments in the Baikal geoecological polygon. - 17. Remote sensing methods in studies of Lake Baikal environment. - 18. Environmental impact on the dynamics of Lake Baikal phytoplankton taxanomic groups: modelling attempt. - 19. Nonlinear stability near the temperature of maximum density and thermobaric instability in Lake Baikal during summer stratification. - 20. Study of the elemental composition of suspended particles in large continental lakes (Baikal and Khubsgul). - 21. Atmospheric and riverine input of nutrients and organic matter into Lake Baikal. - 22. Comparison of persistent organochlorine pollutant behavior in the food webs of Lakes Baikal and Superior. - 23. Carbon and nitrogen isotope studies of pelagic ecosystem and environmental fluctuations of Lake Baikal. - 24. Some speculations on the possibility of changes in deep-water renewal in Lake Baikal and their consequences. - 25. Contamination of the ecosystems of Lake Baikal by persistent organochlorines. - PART 3 EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY. - 26. Genetic differentiation of gammarid (Eulimnogrammarus cyaneus) populations in relation to past environmental changes in Lake Baikal. - 27. Myological peculiarities of the comephoridae: an endemic fish taxon of Lake Baikal (pisces: Teleostei). - 28. Morphometric comparison of skulls of seals of the subgenus Pusa. - 29. The importance of habitat stability for the prevalence of sexual reproduction.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XV, 332 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
0444504346
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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