Table of Contents

Warwick F. Vincent & Johanna Laybourn-Parry: Preface
1: Warwick F. Vincent, John E. Hobbie & Johanna Laybourn-Parry: Introduction to the limnology of high latitude lake and river ecosystems
2: Reinhard Pienitz, Peter T. Doran & Scott F. Lamoureux: Origin and geomorphology of lakes in the Polar Regions
3: Dominic A. Hodgson & John P. Smol: High latitude palaeolimnology
4: Warwick F. Vincent, Sally MacIntyre, Robert H. Spigel & Isabelle Laurion: The physical limnology of high latitude lakes
5: Diane M. McKnight, Michael N. Gooseff, Warwick F. Vincent & Bruce J. Peterson: High latitude rivers and streams
6: Ian Hawes, Clive Howard-Williams & Andrew G. Fountain: Ice-based freshwater ecosystems
7: John C. Priscu, Slawek Tulaczyk, Michael Studinger, Mahlon C. Kennicutt II, Brent C. Christner & Christine M. Foreman: Antarctic subglacial water: origin, evolution and ecology
8: W. Berry Lyons & Jacques C. Finlay: Biogeochemical processes in high latitude lakes and rivers
9: Michael P. Lizotte: Phytoplankton and primary production
10: Antonio Quesada, Eduardo Fernández-Valiente, Ian Hawes & Clive Howard-Williams: Benthic primary production in polar lakes and rivers
11: John E. Hobbie & Johanna Laybourn-Parry: Heterotrophic microbial processes in polar lakes
12: David A. Pearce & Pierre E. Galand: Microbial biodiversity and biogeography
13: Milla Rautio, Ian A.E. Bayly, John A.E. Gibson & Marjut Nyman: Zooplankton and zoobenthos in high-latitude water bodies
14: Michael Power, Jim D. Reist & J. Brian Dempson: Fish in high latitude Arctic lakes
15: Kirsten S. Christoffersen, Erik Jeppesen, Daryl L. Moorhead & Lars J. Tranvik: Food web relationships and community structures in high latitude lakes
16: Martin J. Riddle & Derek C.G. Muir: Direct human impacts on high latitude lakes and rivers
17: Johanna Laybourn-Parry & Warwick F. Vincent: Future directions in polar limnology
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About the Author

Prof. Warwick Vincent is Professor of Biology and Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Ecosystem Studies at Laval University, Québec City, Canada. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and honorary member of the Royal Society of New Zealand. His research focuses on aquatic microbial ecology, light and primary production, and ecosystem responses to climate change, with emphasis on Arctic and Antarctic waters. He has served on the editorial boards of
Antarctic Science and Polar Biology, and on various research committees and studies. He was inaugural Chair of Canada's National Antarctic Committee. He teaches undergraduate, graduate and field courses in
limnology at Laval University, and has been an instructor in the outreach initiative 'Students on Ice' to Antarctica. Prof. Johanna Laybourn-Parry is vice-provost Research at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Prior to that she was Executive Dean of Science at Keele University, UK, and Professor of Environmental Biology at Nottingham University. Her research is undertaken in the Antarctic with the Australian and US Antarctic programmes and in the Arctic at the Natural Environment Research
Council Station in Svalbard. Her research interests focus on carbon cycling in polar lakes, protozoan ecophysiology, viral bacterial dynamics, bioprospecting for novel biochemicals, remote sensing of
lake environments and biological processes on glaciers. She has published two sole authored books, and 128 peer reviewed articles and reviews. Her work has been funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, The European Union, the Royal Society, Industry and logistic support from the Australian Antarctic Science Advisory Committee and NSF.

Reviews

a very welcome addition William J. Green, Antarctic Science