Lake Alchichica limnology : the uniqueness of a tropical maar lake / Javier Alcocer, editor.
Alcocer, Javier, editor.
2022
QH107 .L35 2022
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Title Lake Alchichica limnology : the uniqueness of a tropical maar lake / Javier Alcocer, editor.
ISBN 9783030790967 (electronic bk.)
3030790967 (electronic bk.)
9783030790950
3030790959
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79096-7
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-79096-7 doi
Call Number QH107 .L35 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 577.60972
Summary The book provides a comprehensive account of a tropical lake, Alchichica, considering that tropical limnology is by far less well-understood than temperate. Many of the well-known temperate limnology paradigms do not apply in tropical limnology, such as the 1C/m thermocline concept, or the role of phosphorous as limiting nutrient. Lake Alchichica is - most likely the best limnologically known Mexican lake up to date. Twenty years of continuous monitoring has led us to understand this deep, warm monomictic lake. The peculiar chemical composition of this saline lake sodium-alkaline with high concentration in magnesium waters, and groundwater-fed led to the formation of its unique stromatolite ring that has become world-famous, studied by scientists from various countries. From a biological point of view, this relatively small maar lake displays a low species richness, but surprisingly is plentiful in microendemic species for a recently-formed lake (12,000 years old, at the onset of Holocene Epoch), eleven of which already described, with more to come. Researchers and students interested in tropical limnology, extreme ecosystems, evolutionary biology, and microbiology will find this book a must-read.
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Chapter 1 Lake Alchichica: History of Human Settlements
Chapter 2 Geological Evolution of the Alchichica Crater
Chapter 3 Paleoenvironmental Change in Central Mexico During the Last 20,000 Years
Chapter 4 Recent Climate of Serdan-Oriental Basin
Chapter 5 Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry of the Serdan-Oriental Basin and the Lake Alchichica
Chapter 6 Meteorological Regime, Local Climate, and Hydrodynamics of Lake Alchichica
Chapter 7 Physicochemical Characteristics
Chapter 8 The Littoral Environment
Chapter 9 Aquatic Vegetation
Chapter 10 The Littoral Community
Chapter 11 Bacterioplankton
Chapter 12
Phytoplankton of Alchichica: A Unique Community for an Oligotrophic Lake
Chapter 13 Protozooplankton
Chapter 14 Metazooplankton: The Joys and Challenges of Living in a Saline, Oligotrophic, Warm Monomictic Lake
Chapter 15 Alchichica Silverside
Chapter 16
The Axolotl of Alchichica
Chapter 17 The Deep Benthic Zone. - Chapter 18 Lake Metabolism. - Chapter 19 Lake Food Webs
Chapter 20 Diversity and Endemisms
Chapter 21 Conservation Actions
Chapter 22 Microbialites: Diversity Hotspots in the Mexican Plateau
Chapter 23 The Lake Alchichica from an Astrobiological Perspective
Chapter 24 Lake Alchichica Traditions, Myths, and Legends: Interviews with Local Residents. .

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