TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miliša,Marko
AU  - Ivković,Marija
TI  - Plitvice Lakes
T2  - Springer Water,
SN  - 9783031203787
U1  - 551.48 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Water
KW  - Hydrology
KW  - Biogeography
KW  - Sedimentology
KW  - Geomorphology
KW  - Biogeosciences
N1  - Geomorphological and Geological Properties of Plitvice Lakes Area -- Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Hydromorphology of the Plitvice Lakes Area -- Water Chemistry -- Environmental Isotope Studies at the Plitvice Lakes -- Recent Tufa Deposition -- Springs of the Plitvice Lakes
N2  - After providing a historical overview, this book highlights the current state of knowledge, gaps in our knowledge, recent findings and future prospects with regard to the biological, chemical, geological, and geographical specificities of the Plitvice lakes in Croatia. The Plitvice lakes are a unique environment and home to tufa - a type of calcium carbonate deposit that provides a substrate for living organisms. Its formation process has resulted in a vastly diverse environment of lakes, streams and riparian habitats. The Plitvice lakes have, therefore, historically been both an inspiration and a challenge for scientists, nature enthusiasts, artists, etc. Today, the lakes continue to offer an in-situ laboratory for new discoveries in all aspects of freshwater science. As in most habitats, global changes have become an important issue. Since the Plitvice lakes have remained largely untouched by direct human impacts and have a long historical tradition in research, they represent an ideal subject for assessing the effects of global changes in a temperate freshwater system. This book provides an ecological overview of the biogeochemical processes at work in a unique and virtually pristine European freshwater tufa-forming environment
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20378-7
ER  -