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Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, second edition, focuses on a variety of key areas surrounding inland waters, from the distribution of water on Earth to the properties of water, including the hydrologic cycle, the physics of water movement in lakes and rivers; it includes topics such as waterborne diseases, the metabolism of aquatic ecosystems, pollution conservation, biodiversity, pollution and cycling of chemicals. New topics cover comprehensively recent advances in the field, explaining pressures and underlying concepts and theories.
Klement Tockner is president of the Austrian Science Fund - FWF, full professor of Aquatic Ecology at the Freie Universitat Berlin and former director of the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin. He received a PhD from the University of Vienna (1993) and a Titulary Professorship at ETH (2005). He is an internationally leading freshwater scientist, in particular in the research domains of biodiversity, ecosystem science and environmental management. He was Editor in Chief of the journal Aquatic Sciences and is Subject Editor of the journal Ecosystems. He has published more than 250 scientific papers including 150 ISI papers. In 2021, he edited the second edition of a comprehensive book on European Rivers (Rivers of Europe, Elsevier). He has successfully managed large inter- and transdisciplinary projects such as the EC-funded project BioFresh. He is a member of several scientific committees and advisory boards and an elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Germany Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina.
Thomas Mehner is vice director and senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, Germany. He is a limnologist and fisheries biologist by training, has got his PhD at the University of Rostock in 1992, and has received his habilitation in limnology in 1999. He has published about 170 ISI papers, with a focus on fish communities, lake food webs, and the evolutionary and behavioural ecology of aquatic organisms. He has been Handling Editor of Aquatic Ecology and Freshwater Biology for several years, and he is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of Global Change Biology and Limnologica. Since spring 2018, he has been the president of the International Society of Limnology (SIL). He has taught courses on Limnology, Fish Ecology, Fisheries Management, Behaviour and Evolution, and Scientific Writing. He has trained many MSc and PhD students and is actively mentoring undergraduates, graduates and post-doc researchers.
