From 2002-08-12 to 2002-08-18

Venue: Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic

Summary:
The main aim is to bring together both limnologists and engineers dealing specifically with reservoir limnology and related topics relevant to understanding, predicting and managing reservoir water quality. Reservoirs are specific aquatic systems, intermediate between a river and a lake, and are purposefully constructed by humans to meet specific water needs. Thus, in addition to variables that drive lake limnology, such as geography, morphometry and trophy, they are differentiated according to their location in the river network and their purpose. A critical variable affecting their limnology is water retention time. Due to the reservoir sensitivity to throughflow conditions and human interference with natural cycles during their operation, they are very dynamic systems and their interannual and short term variability is higher than for lakes. Thus, reservoir studies help to derive the regularities of limnological cycles, their relations to a broader environment, and address some urgent topics of contemporary limnology. Understanding the underlying mechanisms that drive the functioning of reservoirs is a basis of appropriate reservoir management for achieving their multiple uses.

Organizers: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Contact Name: Jakub Borovec (Conference Secretary)
E-mail: reslim@hbu.cas.cz
URL: http://www.hbu.cas.cz/ResLim2002/