Rivers Handbook: Volume 1
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Part 1 - Hydrological and physicochemical characteristics; The hydrology of head watercatchments; Analysis of river regimes; Water quality I - Physical characteristics; Water quality II - Chemical characteristics; In-stream hydraulics and sediment transport; Channel morphology and typology; Floodplain construction and erosion; Part 2 - The biota; Heterotrophic microbes; Algae; Macrophytes; Invertebrates; Riverine fishes; The sampling problem; Part 3 - Inputs and pathways of matter and energy; Food webs and species interactions; Detritus processing; Primary production; Energy budgets; Cycles and spirals of nutrients; Part 4 - Examples; La Grande Riviere: a subarctic river and a hydroelectric megaproject; The Rhone River: a large alluvial temperate river; The Orinoco: physical, biological and cultural diversity of a major tropical alluvial river; The River Murray, Australia: a semiarid lowland river; A mountain river
