Technical Specification for Lake Survey edited by Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, CAS has been successfully published by Press of Science.
China is a country with lots of lakes. As a unique recourse closely relating to the survival and development of human beings, lakes have been playing a significant role in the field of water supply, flood prevention, aerial shipping, aquaculture and tourism as well as in maintaining regional ecological balance. The water of the lake, the life in the lake and the lake sediment constitute a complete lake ecosystem. Therefore, acquiring the data of the aforesaid elements is a precondition for the basic research on lake science and research on basic application. Through the investigation on water quality, water volume, biological resources and sediment of the lake, fundamental information on changes of lake ecological environment can be sufficiently obtained, which will provide a data support for lake science research. However, due to the fact that lake survey and monitoring stations in China is insufficient and lake water and ecological environment monitoring network is yet to be established, fundamental data about lakes is still rarely obtained. Furthermore, as various characteristic index of lakes vary with spatiotemporal changes and is dependent closely on seasonal variations, and owing to that fact that monitoring method, observation and experiment technique and instrument are relatively backward and the existing data is not established to the uniform standards, the data acquired is not comparable.
This book is written according to the “Survey on Water Quantity, Water Quality and Biological Resources of Lakes in China” and “Survey on Lake Sediment in China” under the Basic Program of National Science & Technology. Establishment of lake survey standards and a uniform and standardized sample collecting, analyzing, testing and statistic method are essential to ensure the survey results scientific, effective and comparable. It is edited on the basis of collecting, sorting and summarizing the lake research findings both at home and abroad. This book can be divided into 7 chapters including Standard of Survey on Lake’s Water Quality, Standard of Survey on Lake’s Water Quantity, Standard of Survey on Biological Resources in Lakes, Standard of Remote Sensing Survey on Lake, Standard of Survey on Lake Sediment Quantity, Standard of Survey on Lake Sediment Quality and Lake Data Sorting Standard.
This book can be made a reference by research fellows engaging in lake science and environment protection, as well as post-graduates of environmental sciences in colleges and universities.