
Methods in Stream Ecology
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Description
Key Features
- Exercises in each chapter
- Detailed instructions, illustrations, formulae, and data sheets for in-field research for students
- Taxanomic keys to common stream invertebrates and algae
- Link from Chapter 22: FISH COMMUNITY COMPOSITION to an interactive program for assessing and modeling fish numbers
Readership
Table of Contents
- Section A: Physical Processes
1. Landscapes And Catchment Basins
2. Valley Segments, Stream Reaches, And Channel Units
3. Discharge Measurements And Streamflow Analysis
4. Dynamics Of Flow
5. Temperature, Light, And Oxygen
6. Hyporheic ZonesSection B: Material Storage And Transport
7. Fluvial Geomorphic Processes
8. Solute Dynamics
9. Phosphorus Limitation, Uptake, And Turnover In Stream Algae
10. Nitrogen Dynamics
11. Dissolved Organic Carbon
12. Transport And Storage Of Fpom
13. Cpom And Large WoodSection C: Stream Biota
14. Heterotrophic Mirobes
15. Fungi: Biomass, Production And Sporulation Of Aquatic Hyphomycetes
16. Benthic Algae: Distribution And Structure
17. Biomass And Pigments Of Benthic Algae
18. Macrophytes And Bryophytes
19. Meiofauna
20. Macroinvertebrates
21. Macroinvertebrate Movements: Drift, Colonization, And Emergence
22. Fish Community CompositionSection D: Community Interactions
23. Plant - Herbivore Interactions
24. Predator-Prey Interactions
25. Trophic Relations Of Macroinvertebrates
26. Trophic Relations Of Stream Fishes
27. Stream Food WebsSection E: Ecosystem Processes
28. Primary Productivity And Community Respiration
29. Secondary Production Of Macroinvertebrates
30. Decomposition In Stream Ecosystems
31. Riparian Processes And Interactions
32. Effects Of Nutrient Enrichment On Periphyton
33. Surface-Subsurface Interactions In StreamsSection F: Ecosystem Quality
34. Algae As Biotic Indicators Of Environmental Quality
35. Macroinvertebrates As Biotic Indicators Of Environmental Quality
36. Pollution And Toxicological Assessment
Product details
- No. of pages: 896
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2007
- Published: June 2, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780123329080
- eBook ISBN: 9780080547435