River Ecology: Science and Management for a Changing World - Softcover

Mallin, Michael A.

 
9780199549528: River Ecology: Science and Management for a Changing World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199549524 ISBN 13: 9780199549528
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Rivers have been vitally important to human populations worldwide for millennia as “highways” for inland travel, and as sources of water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, manufacturing, irrigation, and power generation, as well as repositories for human, animal, and industrial wastes. This accessible textbook takes a broad approach to river ecology, covering the basics but going beyond by including topics that are often overlooked such as blackwater streams and rivers, tidal creek ecosystems, and reservoir limnology. Since most running water (lotic) systems have been altered or impacted by human activities, there is significant emphasis on anthropogenic impacts, including sedimentation, nutrient pollution and related eutrophication issues as well as the effects of dams and river fragmentation, power plant operations, chemical contamination, wastewater treatment discharges, industrial scale livestock production, invasive species, and rural and urban storm water runoff on river ecosystems. Advances in stream and river restoration are also discussed.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael A. Mallin, Research Professor, Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA

Michael Mallin is Research Professor at the Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA. His recent research efforts have focused on interrelationships between human landscapes and receiving waters, particularly in terms of microbial contamination and biochemical oxygen demand inputs, and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies to protect stream ecosystems. Professor Mallin is actively involved in science and management boards concerning watershed issues, and his research results have been utilized by the State General Assembly to revise coastal development policies in North Carolina. He was selected as a 2001 Aldo Leopold Environmental Leadership Fellow through the Ecological Society of America.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199549524
ISBN 13 
9780199549528
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
415
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