A hugely important text for advanced undergraduates as well as graduates with an interest in stream and river ecology, this second, updated edition is designed to serve as a textbook as well as a working reference for specialists in stream ecology and related fields. The book presents vital new findings on human impacts, and new work in pollution control, flow management, restoration and conservation planning that point to practical solutions. All told, the book is expanded in length by some twenty-five percent, and includes hundreds of figures, most of them new.
This text is also supportive as a supplementary text for courses in watershed ecology/science, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, and landscape ecology.
While this diversity makes river ecosystems seem overwhelmingly complex, a central theme of this volume is that the processes acting in running waters are general, although the settings are often unique.
Tropical Stream Ecology describes the main features of tropical streams and their ecology.
the limits of the stoichiometric approach as well as some complementary approaches and perspectives of work are proposed. ... Ecological stoichiometry is an approach of ecology aimed at understanding the causes and consequences of ...
... Colorado River from central Colorado to Lake Powell are the only reaches where the present flowing water environment resembles historic conditions . COLORADO RIVER BASIN Wyoming Fontenelle Reservoir Nevada Kemmerer Flaming Gorge 7.
This new edition of a very successful standard reference is expanded and fully reworked. The book explains and quantifies the processes whereby streams cleanse themselves, reducing their pollutant load as a natural process.
The book, with its innovative sections, provides a bridge between papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and the findings of researchers in new areas of study.
Aiming to describe the role of dominant ecological factors and of human activities on the organisms of running water and the functioning of the ecosystem, this work covers the few European water courses that are well known in ecological ...
This book is also supportive as a supplementary text for courses in watershed ecology/science, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology and landscape ecology.
These in sightful but hard-learned ecological and social lessons are the subject of this book.