Ecology of streams and rivers
Title:
Ecology of streams and rivers
Author:
Angelier, E. (Eugène)
ISBN:
9781578082568
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Uniform Title:
Écologie des eaux courantes. English
Publication Information:
Enfield, NH : Science Publishers, 2003.
Physical Description:
p. cm.
Contents:
Ch. 1. Running water: agent of erosion, transport and redistribution of materials of the earth's crust -- Ch. 2. General characteristics of hydrographic networks -- Ch. 3. Organisms and ecosystems of running water -- Ch. 4. Current and benthic organisms: chronic instability of the surface horizon of the substrate -- Ch. 5. The hyporheic environment: continuity of the substrate -- Ch. 6. Macrophytes of running waters: a substrate for algae and fauna -- Ch. 7. Life in the water trail: plankton -- Ch. 8. Fish of running waters -- Ch. 9. Temperature, biological cycles and distribution of organisms -- Ch. 10. Light, salts and dissolved oxygen: secondary ecological factors in running water -- Ch. 11. Food webs and energy flows -- Ch. 12. From upstream to downstream: ecological zonation of water courses -- Ch. 13. Ecological impacts of development of water courses -- Ch. 14. From eutrophication to trophic pollution -- Ch. 15. Toxic pollution.
Ch. 16. Biological methods of evaluating pollution -- Ch. 17. Conclusions.
Abstract:
"River and Stream Ecology is addressed to students of university and higher education courses on environment, ecology, hydrobiology, and geography. It is also addressed to engineers in charge of the development, management, and maintenance of water courses (Services for the Environment, Agriculture, Utilities, etc.), providing them with the fundamentals they need to carry out their work."--BOOK JACKET.
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