Research Catalog
Ecology of streams and rivers
- Title
- Ecology of streams and rivers / Eugene Angelier ; translation editor, James Munnick.
- Author
- Angelier, E. (Eugène)
- Publication
- Enfield, NH : Science Publishers, ©2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QH541.5.S7 A5413 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 215 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Écologie des eaux courantes. English
- Alternative Title
- Écologie des eaux courantes.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-210) and index.
- Contents
- Running water: agent of erosion, transport and redistribution of materials of the earth's crust -- The water cycle -- Erosion, transport and redistribution of materials -- Force of moving water -- Load limit and competence of current -- Modes of material transport -- Transport in solution -- Chemical characteristics of continental waters -- Assessment of material transport -- General characteristics of hydrographic networks -- Drainage of watersheds -- Flow of water -- Flow in the substrate -- Sub-flow -- Flow in the plains -- Water regime -- Nival regime -- Oceanic pluvial regime -- Mediterranean regime -- Watersheds with multiple regimes -- Temperature of running waters -- Correlations between parameters in running water -- Organisms and ecosystems of running water -- Marine and freshwater organisms -- Oceanic, lacustrine, and running-water ecosystems -- Functioning of terrestrial, oceanic, and lacustrine ecosystems -- Functioning of running-water ecosystems -- Current and benthic organisms: chronic instability of the surface horizon of the substrate -- Adaptation to the current -- Drift of benthic organisms -- Forms of drift -- Floods and drift -- Assessment of drift -- Origin of superficial benthic population -- The hyporheic environment: continuity of the substrate -- Hyporheic fauna of superficial origin -- Stygobious fauna of subterranean origin -- Distribution of fauna in the hyporheic environment -- Origin of waters -- Granulometry of the substrate -- Origin and biogeography of stygobious fauna.
- ISBN
- 1578082560
- 9781578082568
- LCCN
- 2002030452
- OCLC
- ocm50410147
- 50410147
- SCSB-14336739
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library