«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «BIOLOGIYA. ECOLOGIYA»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «BIOLOGY. ECOLOGY»
ISSN 2073-3372 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Biology. Ecology». 2009. Vol. 1

Modern limnoecology – change of paradigm?

Author(s)
E. A. Silow
Abstract

Shift of paradigms in limnoecology: from the view on lake ecosystems as individual static systems to the understanding of them as some unity, joined by hydrological cycle and influenced by global change, is discussed. The review of the recent limnic ecosystem changes explained by Global change is fulfilled. The coexistence of both general tendencies in many lake ecosystems as well as many processes contrary the new paradigm.
 

Keywords
global change, lake ecosystems, paradigms shift, limnoecology
UDC
574.5

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