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Edited By
Arthur Benke, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, U.S.A.
Colbert Cushing, Streamside Programs, Estes Park, CO, USA
Description
AWARDS:2006 Outstanding Academic Title, by CHOICE
The 2005 Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly
Publishing by the Association of American Publishers (AAP)
Best Reference 2005, by the Library Journal
Rivers
of North America is an important reference for scientists, ecologists, and students studying rivers and their ecosystems. It
brings together information from several regional specialists on the major river basins of North America, presented in a large-format,
full-color book. The introduction covers general aspects of geology, hydrology, ecology and human impacts on rivers. This is followed
by 22 chapters on the major river basins. Each chapter begins with a full-page color photograph and includes several additional photographs
within the text. These chapters feature three to five rivers of the basin/region, and cover several other rivers with one-page summaries.
Rivers selected for coverage include the largest, the most natural, and the most affected by human impact.
This one-of-a-kind resource
is professionally illustrated with maps and color photographs of the key river basins. Readers can compare one river system to another
in terms of its physiography, hydrology, ecology, biodiversity, and human impacts.
Audience
Scientists, students, and river conservationists and ecologists.
Contents
Contributors
Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Background and ApproachArthur C. Benke and Colbert E.
Cushing
2. Atlantic Coast Rivers of the Northeastern United StatesJ. K. Jackson, A. D. Huryn, D. L. Strayer, D. L. Courtemanch,
and B. W. Sweeney
3. Atlantic Coast Rivers of the Southeastern United StatesLeonard A. Smock, Anne B. Wright, and Arthur C.
Benke
4. Gulf Coast Rivers of the Southeastern United StatesG. Milton Ward, Phillip M. Harris, and Amelia K. Ward
5.
Gulf Coast Rivers of the Southwestern United StatesClifford N. Dahm, Robert J. Edwards, and Frances P. Gelwick
6. Lower Mississippi
River and its Tributaries Arthur V. Brown, Kristine B. Brown, Donald C. Jackson, and W. Kevin Pierson
7. Southern Plains Rivers
William J. Matthews, Caryn C. Vaughn, Keith B. Gido, Edie Marsh-Matthews
8. Upper Mississippi River BasinMichael D. Delong
9. Ohio River BasinDavid White, Karla Johnston, and Michael Miller
10. Missouri River BasinDavid L. Galat, Charles R.
Berry, Jr., Edward J. Peters, and Robert G. White
11. Colorado River BasinDean W. Blinn and N. LeRoy Poff
12. Pacific
Coast Rivers of the Coterminous United StatesJames L. Carter and Vincent H. Resh
13. Columbia River BasinJack A. Stanford,
F. Richard Hauer, Stanley V. Gregory, and Eric B. Snyder
14. Great Basin RiversDennis K. Shiozawa and Russell B. Rader
15. Fraser River BasinTrefor B. Reynoldson, Joseph Culp, Rick Lowell, and John S. Richardson
16. Pacific Coast Rivers of
Canada and AlaskaJohn S. Richardson and Alexander M. Milner
17. Yukon River BasinRobert C. Bailey
18. Mackenzie
River BasinJoseph M. Culp, Terry D. Prowse, and Eric A. Luiker
19. Nelson and Churchill River BasinsD. M. Rosenberg,
P. A. Chambers, J. M. Culp, W. G. Franzin, P. A. Nelson, A. G. Salki, M. P. Stainton, R. A. Bodaly, and R. W. Newbury
20. Rivers
of Arctic North AmericaAlexander M. Milner, M. W. Oswood, and K. R. Munkittrick
21. Atlantic Coast Rivers of CanadaRichard
A. Cunjak and Robert W. Newbury
22. St. Lawrence River BasinJames H. Thorp, Gary A. Lamberti, and Andrew F. Casper
23.
Rivers of MexicoPaul F. Hudson, Dean A. Hendrickson, Arthur C. Benke, Alejandro Varela-Romero, Rocio Rodiles-Hern ndez, and Wendell
L. Minckley
24. Overview and Future ProspectsJ. David Allan and Arthur C. Benke
Appendix: Common and Scientific Names
for Plants, Vertebrates, and Selected Invertebrates
Glossary
Index
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Hardbound, 1168 pages, publication date: MAY-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-088253-3
ISBN-10: 0-12-088253-1
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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