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Stream Ecology - Structure and Function of Running Waters (Hardcover, 3rd ed. 2021)
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Stream Ecology - Structure and Function of Running Waters (Hardcover, 3rd ed. 2021)
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Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters is
designed to serve as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and
graduate students, and as a reference source for specialists in
stream ecology and related fields. This Third Edition is thoroughly
updated and expanded to incorporate significant advances in our
understanding of environmental factors, biological interactions,
and ecosystem processes, and how these vary with hydrological,
geomorphological, and landscape setting. The broad diversity of
running waters - from torrential mountain brooks, to large, lowland
rivers, to great river systems whose basins occupy sub-continents -
makes river ecosystems appear overwhelming complex. A central theme
of this book is that although the settings are often unique, the
processes at work in running waters are general and increasingly
well understood. Even as our scientific understanding of stream
ecosystems rapidly advances, the pressures arising from diverse
human activities continue to threaten the health of rivers
worldwide. This book presents vital new findings concerning human
impacts, and the advances in pollution control, flow management,
restoration, and conservation planning that point to practical
solutions. Reviews of the first edition: ".. an unusually lucid and
judicious reassessment of the state of stream ecology" Science
Magazine "..provides an excellent introduction to the area for
advanced undergraduates and graduate students..." Limnology &
Oceanography "... a valuable reference for all those interested in
the ecology of running waters." Transactions of the American
Fisheries Society Reviews of the second edition: "Overall, a must
for the field centre and a good starter text in stream ecology."
(TEN News, October, 2007) "Highly recommended. Upper-division
undergraduates through faculty." (P. R. Pinet, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (7),
2008) "... a very good, fluidly readable book which contains the
latest key scientific knowledge of the ecology of running waters."
(Daniel Graeber, International Review of Hydrobiology, Vol. 94 (2),
2009)
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