This book demonstrates the role of dominant ecological factors on the organisms of running water and the functioning of the ecosystem, as well as the consequences of human activity. It provides vision of certain rivers and streams that represent various types of European watercourses.
Running Water: Agent of Erosion, Transport and Redistribution of Materials of the Earth's Crust; General Characteristics of Hydrographic Networks
Organisms and Ecosystems of Running Water
Current and Benthic Organisms: Chronic Instability of the Surface Horizon of the Substrate
The Hyporheic Environment: Continuity of the Substrate
Macrophytes of Running Waters: A Substrate for Algae and Fauna
Life in the Water Trail: Plankton; Fishes of Running Waters
Temperature, Biological Cycles and Distribution of Organisms
Light, Salts and Dissolved Oxygen: Secondary Ecological Factors in Running Water
Food Webs and Energy Flows; From Upstream to Downstream: Ecological Zonation of Water Courses
Ecological Impacts of Development of Water Courses
From Eutrophication to Trophic Pollution
Toxic Pollution
Biological Methods of Evaluation Pollution
Biography
Eugene Angelier