The diatoms Book

	Preface
Pt. I	Introduction
1	Applications and uses of diatoms: prologue	3
Pt. II	Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in flowing waters and lakes
2	Assessing environmental conditions in rivers and streams with diatoms	11
3	Diatoms as indicators of hydrologic and climatic change in saline lakes	41
4	Diatoms as mediators of biogeochemical silica depletion in the Laurentian Great Lakes	73
5	Diatoms as indicators of surface water acidity	85
6	Diatoms as indicators of lake eutrophication	128
7	Continental diatoms as indicators of long-term environmental change	169
8	Diatoms as indicators of water level change in freshwater lakes	183
Pt. III	Diatoms as indicators in extreme environments
9	Diatoms as indicators of environmental change near arctic and alpine treeline	205
10	Freshwater diatoms as indicators of environmental change in the High Arctic	227
11	Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in antarctic freshwaters	245
12	Diatoms of aerial habitats	264
Pt. IV	Diatoms as indicators in marine and estuarine environments
13	Diatoms as indicators of coastal paleoenvironments and relative sea-level change	277
14	Diatoms and environmental change in brackish waters	298
15	Applied diatom studies in estuaries and shallow coastal environments	334
16	Estuarine paleoenvironmental reconstructions using diatoms	352
17	Diatoms and marine paleoceanography	374
Pt. V	Other applications
18	Diatoms and archeology	389
19	Diatoms in oil and gas exploration	402
20	Forensic science and diatoms	413
21	Toxic and harmful marine diatoms	419
22	Diatoms as markers of atmospheric transport	429
23	Diatomite	436
Pt. VI	Conclusions
24	Epilogue: a view to the future	447
	Glossary, and acronyms	451
	Index	466