Alte Donau: Successful Restoration and Sustainable Management

“This book provides an instructive overview about the restoration and monitoring of a vulnerable aquatic ecosystem. Photographs and diagrams illustrate the investigated organisms and landscape and the results of measurements helping the understanding. This book can be recommended to everyone interested in either restoration techniques or shallow urban lakes.” (M. Duleba, Acta Botanica Hungarica, Vol. 61 (3-4), 2019)“The book will be of interest to many freshwater specialists as well as to those concerned with the management of lakes. It should prove of particular value to limnologists working in emerging economies where the pressures connected with urban development continue to grow.” (D. Glen George, SILnews, Vol. 74, June, 2019)

• 1. Concepts for restoration: Nutrient loading, thresholds and alternative stable states.- 2. From a river to an urban lake. Historic development.- 3. Morphology, water temperature and climate.- 4. Hydrological aspects of Alte Donau.- 5. Restoration and lake management.- 6. Long-term changes of the physico-chemical conditions in Alte Donau.- 7. Sediment.- 8. Wax and wane of macrophytes.- 9. The signature of Phytoplankton in Alte Donau: response to trophic change from hypertrophic to mesotrophic over 22 years.- 10. Phytoplankton photosynthesis and production.- 11. The response of zooplankton to restoration and climate warming in Alte Donau.- 12. The Ciliate Assemblage in Alte Donau.- 13 Microbial and viral loop in Alte Donau: A case study.- 14. The effect of restoration measures on the benthic invertebrates of a Danube backwater (Alte Donau).- 15. Fish assemblages of the ‘Alte Donau’ system: Communities under various pressures.- 16. The stocks of waterbirds on the Alte Donau in Vienna.- 17. Hygienic aspects of a recreational water-body.- 18. Restoration of the littoral zone.- 19. New planning activities in Vienna’s water-management.- 20. Eutrophication, management and sustainable development of urban Lakes: General considerations and specific solutions for Alte Donau - A Synthesis.