Environmental Flows : Saving Rivers in the Third Millennium.
Environmental Flows describes the timing, quality, and quantity of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human well-being and livelihoods that depend upon them. It answers crucial questions about the flow of water within and between different kinds of ecosystems...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Freshwater ecology series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Environmental Flows describes the timing, quality, and quantity of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human well-being and livelihoods that depend upon them. It answers crucial questions about the flow of water within and between different kinds of ecosystems. What happens when the flow or the availability of water is curtailed or diverted, either naturally or by human activity? How will climate change alter the availability of water and impact aquatic ecosystems? Methodological developments from the simplest hydrological formulas to large-scale framew. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (422 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520953451 0520953452 1283543214 9781283543217 9786613855664 6613855669 |