The Rivers handbook : hydrological and ecological principles : in two volumes /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Boston :
Blackwell Scientific Publications,
1992-1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Hydrological and physicochemical characteristics
- The hydrology of head watercatchments
- Analysis of river regimes
- Water quality I
- Physical characteristics
- Water quality II
- Chemical characteristics
- In-stream hydraulics and sediment transport
- Channel morphology and typology
- Floodplain construction and erosion
- Part 2. The biota
- Heterotrophic microbes
- Algae
- Macrophytes
- Invertebrates
- Riverine fishes
- The sampling problem
- Part 3. Inputs and pathways of matter and energy
- Food webs and species interactions
- Detritus processing
- Primary production
- Energy budgets
- Cycles and spirals of nutrients
- Part 4. Examples
- La Grande Riviere: a subarctic river and a hydroelectric megaproject
- The Rhone River: a large alluvial temperate river
- The Orinoco: physical, biological and cultural diversity of a major tropical alluvial river
- The River Murray, Australia: a semiarid lowland river
- A mountain river.
