The Environmental Landscape of Lochnagar -- Geology of Lochnagar and Surrounding Region -- The Shaping of Lochnagar: Pre-Glacial, Glacial and Post-Glacial Processes -- Lochnagar Water-Temperatures, Climate and Weather -- The Development, Distribution and Properties of Soils in the Lochnagar Catchment and Their Influence on Soil Water Chemistry -- Flora and Vegetation of Lochnagar – Past, Present, and Future -- The Contemporary Physical and Biological Status of Lochnagar -- The Sediments Of Lochnagar: Distribution, Accumulation and Composition -- Hydrology and Hydrochemistry of Lochnagar -- The Aquatic Flora of Lochnagar -- Pattern And Process In The Lochnagar Food Web -- Brown Trout in Lochnagar: Population and Contamination by Metals and Organic Micropollutants -- Anthropogenic Impacts from Atmospheric Pollutant Deposition -- National, International and Global Sources of Contamination at Lochnagar -- Acidification of Lochnagar and Prospects for Recovery -- Trace Metals in the Catchment, Loch and Sediments of Lochnagar: Measurements and Modelling -- Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Sediments of Lochnagar -- Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Spheroidal Carbonaceous Particles (Scps) in Sediments, Soils and Deposition at Lochnagar -- Future impacts -- Future Climate Predictions for Lochnagar -- Past and Future Environmental Change at Lochnagar and the Impacts of a Changing Climate -- An introduction to Lochnagar -- An Introduction to Lochnagar -- Physical Characteristics of Lochnagar.

The remote mountain loch of Lochnagar is one of the most studied freshwater bodies in Europe. It is an area of outstanding, although harsh, natural beauty, a favourite destination for hill-walkers, and a rare UK habitat for many alpine species. This book brings together knowledge gained over two decades of multi-disciplinary scientific study, with the results of lake sediment research covering millennia, to show how the loch has developed both naturally and as a result of human impact. Particular emphasis is placed on how this fragile ecosystem, and others like it, may be affected by future climate change.