Table of contents for Dying and dead seas : climatic versus anthropic causes / edited by Jacques C.J. Nihoul, Peter O. Zavialov, and Philip P. Micklin.

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     Preface                                                vii

1.   What do we know about dead, dying and endangered
     lakes and seas
     A.G. Kostianoy, P.O. Zavialov and S.A. Lebedev     1

2.   Water management aspects of Amu Darya
     J. Froebrich and 0. Kayumov                            49

3.   Morphological changes in the Aral Sea
     Satellite imagery and water balance model
     R. Ressl and Ph. Micklin                               77

4.   Aral Sea basin evolution: geodynamic aspect
     B. Nurtaev                                             91

5.    The Aral Sea crisis
     Ph. Micklin                                            99

6.    Hydrobiology of the Aral Sea
     N.V. Aladin, I.S. Plotnikov and R. Letolle         125

7.    Main features of the Caspian Sea hydrology
      A.N. Kosarev, V.S. Tuzhilkin and A.G. Kostianoy    159

8.    Hydrobiology of the Caspian Sea
      N.V. Aladin, I.S. Plotnikov                           185

9.    Contamination of the Caspian Sea.
      An overview on recent findings
      M.R. Sheikholeslami, S. de Mora and V. Vladymyrov  227

10.   1000-year environmental history of Lake Issyk-Kul
      S. Giralt, R. Julia, J. Klerkx, S. Riera, S. Leroy, T. Buchaca,
      J. Catalan, M. De Batist, C. Beck, V. Bobrov, V. Gavshin,
      I. Kalugin, F. Sukhorukov, M. Brennwald, R. Kipfer, F. Peters,
      S. Lombardi, V. Matychenkov, V. Romanovsky, V. Podsetchine,
      and N. Voltattori                                     253



11.  The Dead Sea as a dying lake
     I. Gavrieli and A. Oren                                287

12.  The continued degradation of Lake Corangamite, Australia
     B.V. Timms                                             307

13.  Lake Chad: a changing environment
     J. Lemoalle                                            321

14.  Genetic traces of environmental variations in ancient lakes
     S.V. Semovski, D.Y. Sherbakov and E. Verheyen       341

15.  Hypoxia and the physics of the Louisiana Coastal Current
     W.J. Wiseman, N.N. Rabalais, R.E. Turner and D. Justic 359

     List of participants                                   373