Man and River Systems: The Functioning of River Systems at the Basin Scale [Hardcover]

The volume focuses on the ecological functioning of rivers, which has received less attention than functioning of lakes and reservoirs. The selected papers cover a large range of topics relating to aquatic communities, eutrophication, nutrient dynamics and organic pollution, erosion and sediment transport, and fate of micropollutants at the basin scale. Integrated approaches developed in order to study the ecological functioning of fluvial systems perturbed by human activity are presented. This functioning is analysed from the point of view of fundamental research, but insights into system management are not neglected.
This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of aquatic ecology, river system functioning, and water surface pollution, to postgraduate students, to the institutions involved in water resource management, and to the drinking water and waste water treatment industries. It draws information from many large river systems in the world.Introduction. A basin scale framework for the study of Human pressure on river system functioning; J. Garnier, J.-M. Mouchel. Part One: Biological communities. Plankton dynamics in the Rhine during downstream transport as influenced by biotic interactions and hydrological conditions; T. Ietswaart, et al. Aquatic bryophyte assemblage along a gradient of regulation in the river rhine; A. Vanderpoorten, J.-P. Klein. A macrophyte communities sequence as an indicator of eutrophication and acidification levels in weakly mineralised streams in north-eastern France; T. Thiebaut, S. Muller. Use of Oligochaete communities for assessment of the ecotoxicological risks in fine sediment of rivers and canals in the Artois-Picardie water basin (France); J. Prygiel, et al. Contribution of the macrobenthic compartment to the oxygen budget of a large regulate river: the Mosel; V. Bachmann, P. Usselglio-Polatera. Contribution to the ecological quality of Aliakmon River (Macedonia, Hellas): l³"