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Main Title Environmental flows : saving rivers in the third millennium /
Author Arthington, Angela H.,
Publisher University of California Press,
Year Published 2012
OCLC Number 793222021
ISBN 9780520273696; 0520273699
Subjects Stream ecology ; Streamflow--Environmental aspects ; Stream conservation ; Biotic communities ; Water-supply--Environmental aspects ; Fluss--(DE-588)4131972-2 ; Aquatisches èOkosystem--(DE-588)4293663-9 ; Gewässerschutz--(DE-588)4020830-8 ; Wasserversorgung--(DE-588)4064811-4
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EHBM  QH541.5.S7A78 2012 CEMM/ACESD Library/Narragansett,RI 10/22/2012
Collation xii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes
River values and threats -- Global hydrology, climate, and river flow regimes -- Catchments, drainage networks, and resource regimes -- River ecology, the natural flow regime paradigm, and hydroecological principles -- Effects of catchment change and river-corridor engineering -- History of water control and dam impacts -- Effects of dams on sediment, thermal, and chemical regimes -- Effects of dams on habitat and aquatic biodiversity -- Introduction to environmental flow methods -- Hydraulic rating and habitat simulation methods -- Flow protection methods -- Flow restoration methods -- Ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA) -- Environmental flow relationships, models, and applications -- Groundwater-dependent ecosystems and threats -- Sustaining groundwater-dependent ecosystems -- Wetlands, threats, and water requirements -- Estuaries, threats, and flow requirements -- Setting limits to hydrologic alteration -- Implementing and monitoring environmental flows -- Legislation and policy -- Adapting to climate change -- Appendix: The Brisbane Declaration (2007). Environmental Flows describes the timing, quality, and quantity of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarian ecosystems and the human well-being and livelihoods that depend on them. It answers crucial questions about the flow of water within and between different kinds of ecosystems. What happens when the flow or the availability of water is curtailed or diverted, either naturally or by human activity? How will climate change alter the availability of water and impact the aquatic ecosystems? Covering methodological developments from the simplest hydrological formulas to large-scale frameworks that inform water management, this book is a must-read for water managers and freshwater and estuarian ecologists contending with ever-changing conditions influencing the flow of water. -- Book Jacket.