Ianula: An Account of the History and Development of the Lago di Monterosi, Latium, Italy

Multi-proxy studies in palaeolimnology

“…Although we now have vast computing resources, a diverse range of numerical techniques, and large numbers of modern calibration data-sets and transfer functions, the real challenge is to improve on the classical pioneer studies and to argue as logically and as rigorously as was done in the early multiproxy studies (e.g. Livingstone 1957;Livingstone et al 1958;Cowgill et al 1966;Wright 1966;Hutchinson 1970;Deevey 1984;Likens 1985). There has been a tendency in some aspects of palaeolimnology to get too pre-occupied with the minutiae of reducing modern prediction errors from 0.91 to 0.89…”

Mediterranean limnology: current status, gaps and the future

“…The availability of limnosystem models, either heuristic or predictive, conceptual or numeric, which is still lower than the vast array of items from cold temperate areas (e.g. Reynolds et al 2001;Sommer et al 1986;Straskraba & Tundisi 1999 Guilizzoni & Oldfield (1996), Hutchinson (1970), Lami et al (2000), Marchetto & Lami (1994), Margalef (1957), Ruggiu et al (1998b) Schmidt et al (2000, Valero-Garcés (2003) Environmental problems including water pollution and eutrophication Alvarez-Cobelas et al (1992b), De Bernardi et al (1996, Gaggino & Provini (1988), Gophen (2000), Lake (2003), Wynne & Parparova (2002) Techniques for biological monitoring Alba-Tercedor & Pujante (2000), Buffagni et al (2001), Davies (2000) Human culture and Mediterranean limnosystems Alvarez-Cobelas & Cirujano (1996), Bayly (1999), Blasco Ibáñez (1901, Haslam (1991), Haslam & Borg (1998) Talling 1993;Bäuerle & Gaedke 1998). Those studies will not only help to understand climate change but also illuminate shorter-term processes arising from seasonal and interannual environmental variability (Neale et al 1991).…”

Interannual fluctuations in primary production: Direct physical effects and the trohic cascade at Castle Lake, California

“…Phytoplankton biomass and productivity in lakes vary at many time scales: millenia and longer (Horie 198 1), centuries (Hutchinson et al 1970), decades (Edmondson 1972;Goldman 1988), and year to year (Scavia et al 1986;Goldman et al 1989), as well as at shorter scales (Sommer et al 1986; see also Carpenter 1988a). Interannual changes, in particular, remain one of the least investigated areas in limnology.…”