Restoring and Protecting the World's Lakes and Reservoirs

摘要

The paper calls attention to the particular problems that lakes and reservoirshave suffered as a result of increased siltation, nutrient loading, toxics, habitat degradation, over-exploitation, and changes to marginal ecosystems. It identifies vital components of the water-based ecosystem requiring special consideration to maintain biodiversity, including wetlands and marginal floodplains inextricably linked to lakes and reservoirs.