Rivers of Europe
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Based on the bestselling book, Rivers of North America, this new guide stands as the only primary source of complete and comparative baseline data on the biological and hydrological characteristics of more than 180 of the highest profile rivers in Europe. With numerous full-color photographs and maps, Rivers of Europe includes conservation information on current patterns of river use and the extent to which human society has exploited and impacted them. Rivers of Europe provides the information ecologists and conservation managers need to better assess their management and meet the EU legislative good governance targets.
Key Features
- Coverage on more than 180 European rivers
- Summarizes biological, ecological and biodiversity characteristics
- Provides conservation managers with information to resolve conflicts between recreational use of rivers, their use as a water supply, and the need to conserve natural habitats
- Data on river hydrology (maximum , minimum and average flow rates), seasonal variation in water flow
- Numerous full-color photographs
- Information on the underlying geology and its affect on river behaviour
Readership
River biologists/ecologists; Geographers; Hydrologists; Local, regional and governmental environmental, river & water resource managers
Table of Contents
- Preface
Forward
1. General Overview
2. Volga River Basin
3. Danube River Basin
4. Iberian Rivers
5. Continental Atlantic Rivers
6. Rhine River Basin
7. Rhone River Basin
8. Rivers of the Fenno-Scandinavian Shield
9. Arctic Rivers
10. British and Irish Rivers
11. Rivers of the Balkan
12. Italian Rivers
13. Western Steppic Rivers
14. Rivers of the Central Highlands and
Plains
15. Rivers of the Boreal Uplands
16. Baltic and Eastern Continental Rivers
17. Rivers of Anatolia and the Caucasus
18. Ural River Basin
19. Perspectives
Product details
- No. of pages: 728
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2008
- Published: December 24, 2008
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080919089
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123694492
About the Authors
Klement Tockner
Professor Tockner received a PhD from the University of Vienna. He has special expertise on freshwater biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and river and wetland restoration and management. He has published about 250 scientific papers including more than 180 ISI papers. Klement Tockner has successfully managed large inter- and transdisciplinary projects such as the EC-funded project BioFresh on freshwater biodiversity. He is member of several scientific committees and advisory boards, and elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Germany Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina.
Affiliations and Expertise
Director General of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and professor for Ecosystem Sciences at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Urs Uehlinger
Christopher T. Robinson
Affiliations and Expertise
Department of Limnology, EAWAG (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)