Ecology of streams and rivers / Eugene Angelier ; translation editor, James Munnick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Angelier, E. (Eugène)

Standardized Title:

Écologie des eaux courantes. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Stream ecology.

Physical Description:

xi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Enfield, NH : Science Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

River and Stream Ecology is addressed to students of university and higher education courses on environment, ecology, hydrobiology, and geography. It is also addressed to engineers in charge of the development, management, and maintenance of water courses (Services for the Environment, Agriculture, Utilities, etc.), providing them with the fundamentals they need to carry out their work.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Running water: agent of erosion, transport and redistribution of materials of the earth's crust 1

1. The water cycle 1

2. Erosion, transport and redistribution of materials 2

2.1. Force of moving water 2

2.2. Load limit and competence of current 4

2.3. Modes of material transport 5

3. Transport in solution 6

4. Chemical characteristics of continental waters 8

5. Assessment of material transport 9

Chapter 2 General characteristics of hydrographic networks 11

1. Drainage of watersheds 11

2. Flow of water 12

2.1. Flow in the substrate 12

2.2. Sub-flow 13

2.3. Flow in the plains 13

3. Water regime 15

3.1. Nival regime 15

3.2. Oceanic pluvial regime 15

3.3. Mediterranean regime 17

3.4. Watersheds with multiple regimes 17

4. Temperature of running waters 17

5. Correlations between parameters in running water 18

Chapter 3 Organisms and ecosystems of running water 21

1. Marine and freshwater organisms 21

2. Oceanic, lacustrine, and running-water ecosystems 22

2.1. Functioning of terrestrial, oceanic, and lacustrine ecosystems 23

2.2. Functioning of running-water ecosystems 24

Chapter 4 Current and benthic organisms: chronic instability of the surface horizon of the substrate 27

1. Adaptation to the current 27

2. Drift of benthic organisms 30

2.1. Forms of drift 30

2.2. Floods and drift 33

2.3. Assessment of drift 33

3. Origin of superficial benthic population 36

Chapter 5 The hyporheic environment: continuity of the substrate 39

1. Hyporheic fauna of superficial origin 39

2. Stygobious fauna of subterranean origin 40

3. Distribution of fauna in the hyporheic environment 41

3.1. Origin of waters 41

3.2. Granulometry of the substrate 43

4. Origin and biogeography of stygobious fauna 46

4.1. Stygobious fauna originating from surface waters 46

4.2. Stygobia of marine origin 47

Chapter 6 Macrophytes of running waters: a substrate for algae and fauna 49

1. Bryophytes 49

1.1. Colonization of the substrate 49

1.2. Population of Bryophytes 50

2. Spermatophytes with rooted plant life 51

2.1. Colonization of the stream environment 52

2.2. Fauna of rooted vegetation 56

Chapter 7 Life in the water trail: plankton 59

1. Transit time and development of plankton 59

2. Modelling of phytoplankton development and seasonal successions 62

Chapter 8 Fish of running waters 67

1. Swimming and the water current 67

2. Distribution of fish on a longitudinal profile 69

3. Migration of fish 71

4. Geographical distribution of fish 72

Chapter 9 Temperature, biological cycles and distribution of organisms 77

1. Temperature and development of organisms 77

1.1. Temperature thresholds and temperature of maximum activity 77

1.2. Lethal temperatures, limits of indefinite survival and population growth rates 80

1.3. Temperature and time of development 81

2. Biological cycles: quiescence, diapause, mono- and polyvoltinism 84

2.1. Biological cycle of species with diapause 84

2.2. Biological cycles of species with quiescence 84

2.3. Conditions of life at altitudinal limits 87

2.4. Flight periods of insects that become flying adults 87

3. Conclusions: altitudinal distribution of fauna of running waters 88

3.1. Altitudinal succession in Turbellaria 89

3.2. Altitudinal succession in the Blephariceridae of the Central Pyrenees 90

3.3. Time-space successions in the Blephariceridae of Corsica 91

Chapter 10 Light, salts and dissolved oxygen: secondary ecological factors in running water 93

1. Light and organisms in running waters 93

1.1. Light and aquatic plants 93

1.2. Light and fauna 95

2. Dissolved salts 95

2.1. Electrolytes and aquatic flora 96

2.2. Electrolytes and aquatic fauna 97

3. Dissolved oxygen and fauna 97

Chapter 11 Food webs and energy flows 101

1. Allochthonous materials and their biodegradation 101

1.1. Inputs of allochthonous materials 101

1.2. Biodegradation of allochthonous matter 102

2. Autochthonous plant production 103

2.1. Phytobenthos and phytoplankton 103

2.2. Upstream-downstream gradient of detritic and algal particulate carbon 105

3. Consumers 106

3.1. Invertebrates 106

3.2. Fish 110

Chapter 12 From upstream to downstream: ecological zonation of water courses 117

1. Types of microhabitats 118

1.1. Falls and cascades 120

1.2. Rapids 120

1.3. Aprons 120

1.4. Flats 120

1.5. Muds 120

1.6. Channels 120

1.7. Lones 121

2. Upstream-downstream zonation 121

2.1. Crenal 122

2.2. Rhithral 123

2.3. Potamal 127

2.4. Illies and Botosaneanu's zonation and the concept of fluvial continuum 129

3. The alluvial plain and its zonation 130

3.1. The alluvial plain 131

3.2. Vegetation on the banks 131

3.3. Transfers between channels and the alluvial plain 133

3.4. The mobile littoral concept 134

4. Rivers with a Mediterranean hydrological regime 134

4.1. Settlements of permanent rivers 135

4.2. Temporary streams 135

Chapter 13 Ecological impacts of development of water courses 139

1. The Lot: a river subject to multiple developments 139

1.1. Phytoplankton 142

1.2. Benthos 142

1.3. Fish 143

2. Ecological impacts of regulated flows on the rhithron: the Verdon 145

2.1. Benthos 146

2.2. Fish 147

Chapter 14 From eutrophication to trophic pollution 151

1. Eutrophication in running waters 152

1.1. Eutrophication of the Upper Aveyron 152

1.2. Eutrophication of the Lot 153

1.3. Eutrophication of the Charente 155

1.4. Eutrophication of the Vire 157

2. Trophic pollution 161

2.1. Processes of biodegradation 161

2.2. Self-purification in the rhithral 164

2.3. Self-purification in the potamal 165

3. Eutrophication and trophic pollution: two sides of the same problem 169

Chapter 15 Toxic pollution 171

2. Toxic pollutants 171

2.1. Toxic organic pollution 172

2.2. Saline pollution 174

2.3. Chemical pollution 174

2.4. Cumulative effect micropollutants 175

2.5. Acidification of waters 177

3. Multiple pollution 178

3.1. The Riou-Mort 178

Chapter 16 Biological methods of evaluating pollution 183

1. Methods using biochemistry or ecotoxicology 183

2. Biocoenotic methods 184

2.1. Comparative analysis of communities 184

2.2. Methods based on the vicariance of species belonging to a single group 185

2.3. Methods based on a combination of benthic macro-invertebrates 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-210) and index.

ISBN:

1578082560

OCLC:

50410147