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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. River Values and Threats; 2. Global Hydrology, Climate, and River Flow Regimes; 3. Catchments, Drainage Networks, and Resource Regimes; 4. River Ecology, the Natural Flow Regime Paradigm, and Hydroecological Principles; 5. Effects of Catchment Change and River-Corridor Engineering; 6. History of Water Control and Dam Impacts; 7. Effects of Dams on Sediment, Thermal, and Chemical Regimes; 8. Effects of Dams on Habitat and Aquatic Biodiversity; 9. Introduction to Environmental Flow Methods.
- 10. Hydraulic Rating and Habitat Simulation Methods11. Flow Protection Methods; 12. Flow Restoration Methods; 13. Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration (ELOHA); 14. Environmental Flow Relationships, Models, and Applications; 15. Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems and Threats; 16. Sustaining Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems; 17. Wetlands, Threats, and Water Requirements; 18. Estuaries, Threats, and Flow Requirements; 19. Setting Limits to Hydrologic Alteration; 20. Implementing and Monitoring Environmental Flows; 21. Legislation and Policy; 22. Adapting to Climate Change.
- Appendix: The Brisbane Declaration (2007)Literature Cited; Index.