water ecology Books

Lake Systems from the Ice Age to Industrial Time

During the 20th century, lake research has become an internationally recognised field of scientific activity, improving our understanding on physical, chemical and biological processes, on fresh water ecology, and water resources among others. The interdisciplinary approaches mainly developed in historical ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Alpine Waters

the ecological functioning of mountain waters presents a highly challenging task and is ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
The Jordan River and Dead Sea Basin

This book brings together leading international and regional scholars and experts to reflect on appropriate models of water governance for the Jordan River and Dead Sea basin. Decades of unilateral actions by the basin’s riparians has left this valuable water resource in a state of ecological crisis. Growing ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
The Jordan River and Dead Sea Basin

This book brings together leading international and regional scholars and experts to reflect on appropriate models of water governance for the Jordan River and Dead Sea basin. Decades of unilateral actions by the basin’s riparians has left this valuable water resource in a state of ecological crisis. Growing ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Inland Waters of Southern Africa: an Ecological Perspective

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Water Resources Allocation: Sharing Risks and Opportunities

Water resources allocation determines who is able to use water resources, how, when and where. It directly affects the value (economic, ecological, socio-cultural) that individuals and society obtain from water resources. This report overviews how allocation works in a range of countries and how the ...

By IWA Publishing
Ecology of Baltic Coastal Waters

This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the enormous ecological diversity of Baltic coastal ecosystems. A short introduction into the Baltic Sea as a reference ecosystem is followed by detailed descriptions of the characteristics of coastal ecosystems. Ecological case studies from the following ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Remote Sensing of Coastal Aquatic Environments

Coastal waters are important ecological systems and vital assets for many nations. Coastal waters are also complex, dynamic environments where a vast array of coupled biological, chemical, geological, and physical processes occurs over multiple time and space scales. The optical environment of coastal ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design

Design options and planning procedures must be critically examined to ensure that landscapes are created with sensitivity to water quality and management issues as well as overall ecological integrity. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design presents the history of water as a design and planning ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
Assessment of the ecological status of European surface waters

) in the year 2000 which defined the ecological status of surface water as ‘‘… an expression of the quality of ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Lough Neagh: The Ecology of a Multipurpose Water Resource

Lough Neagh is the largest lake in the British Isles. It covers an area of 383 km2 being 30 km along its longest axis. From pre-historic times the lake and its rivers influenced the settlements of man in the role of a fishery and communication link with the interior of Ireland. Ireland's first canal, completed in 1787, linked the small but significant coal deposits of Tyrone to Dublin by way ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
The Trophic Spectrum Revisited

These proceedings of a workshop of the International Association for Phytoplankton Taxonomy and Ecology are directed specifically at the relationship between phytoplankton ecology and the trophic status of water bodies. Contributions address the fact that distinctive assemblages of phytoplankton ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Macrophytes in Aquatic Ecosystems: From Biology to Management

Macrophytes and macrophytes ecology have gained an added importance with the introduction of, and legal requirement to implement, the European Water Framework Directive. This reflects the valuable role that aquatic plant communities play in assessing the ecological status of water bodies. Significant ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Ecology and Management of Coastal Waters

The development and ecology of coastal waters is an increasingly important topic and one which touches a wide range of areas including oceanography, hydrology, biology, ecology, fisheries science, aquaculture, civil engineering, geography, economics, law and the social sciences. This book provides a balanced ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
The Evolution of Water Resource Planning and Decision Making

This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. While the historical context provided goes back to the early 19th century, the book concentrates on the past 60 ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Riparian Areas: Functions and Strategies for Management

The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areas—the lands bordering ...

By The National Academies Press (NAP)
Ecological Effects of Water-level Fluctuations in Lakes

Most aquatic ecosystems have variable water levels. These water-level fluctuations (WLF) have multiple effects on the organisms above and below the waterline. Natural WLF patterns in lakes guarantee both productivity and biodiversity, while untimely floods and droughts may have negative effects. Human impacts on ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Stream Ecology

Running waters are enormously diverse, ranging from torrential mountain brooks, to large lowland rivers, to great river systems whose basins occupy subcontinents. While this diversity makes river ecosystems seem overwhelmingly complex, a central theme of this volume is that the processes acting in running ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery

The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery resulted from a study conducted at the request of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The nation’s longest river, the Missouri River and its floodplain ecosystem experienced substantial environmental and hydrologic changes during the twentieth century. The context of Missouri River dam ...

By The National Academies Press (NAP)
Water Dynamics

Water is the essential constituent for life and this proceedings covers the role of water in materials, earth science and geo/biosphere. It assesses the role of water in a range of earth processes and considers environmentally friendly approaches to preserving water environments for present and future ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

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