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Neusiedlersee: The Limnology of a Shallow Lake in Central Europe (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979)
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Neusiedlersee: The Limnology of a Shallow Lake in Central Europe (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979)
Series: Monographiae Biologicae, 37
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H. Laffler Interest aroused in the past by Neusiedlersee, located
in what was earlier the western part of Hungary, was mainly due to
the enormous fluctuations in water level and the consequent threat
to the livelihood of the local popula tion, who lived chiefly from
stock-farming. Practically no tourism touched the area until 1920,
about a century later than Schubert's visit to the Salzkam mergut
lake district, the traditional resort area in Upper Austria.
Probably because of its small popularity there is almost no
documentation in the form of engravings or paintings. One of the
exceptions is an oil painting by Schnorr-Carolsfeld, from about
1820. It is obvious that there was no Phragmites at the time he
painted the view near Neusiedl. When the shallow Neusiedlersee was
discovered by tourists it began to attract scientific interest,
although some earlier work by mineralogists, geographers and
hydrographers does exist. But it was only after the Second World
War that this interest could be intensified, the lake now being an
alkaline, turbid body of water confined by the vast areas of
Phragmites which had come into existence after the lake last dried
out in 1868. Scientific work gained considerable impetus from
international activities such as the Interna tional Biological
Programme, International Hydrological Decade, and Man and
Biosphere, the results of which will be included in this volume.
But in spite of all such efforts Neusiedlersee will undoubtedly
remain, in many respects, a mystery.
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