Includes bibliographical references and index.

ch. 1. An erosional landscape -- Riversketch : ancestral rivers -- ch. 2. Succession -- Riversketch : Coweeta -- ch. 3. continuum -- Riversketch : Northwest passage -- ch. 4. Rheogenesis -- Riversketch : springs and tributaries -- ch. 5. The stream ecosystem -- Riversketch : Mississippi rising -- ch. 6. A flux of nutrients -- Riversketch : muddying the waters -- ch. 7. Allochthony -- Riversketch : river pigs and log marks -- ch. 8. Spiraling -- Riversketch : killer rain -- ch. 9. Primary production -- Riversketch : river of grass -- ch. 10. Heterotrophy -- Riversketch : black waters -- ch. 11. Functional groups -- Riversketch : the longest refuge -- ch. 12. Secondary production -- Riversketch : steamboat 'round the bend -- ch. 13. Biodiversity -- Riversketch : a different drummer -- ch. 14. Mayflies -- Riversketch : old man river -- ch. 15. Caddisflies -- Riversketch : a change in the weather -- ch. 16. Crustaceans -- Riversketch : rivers in darkness -- ch. 17. Meiofauna -- Riversketch : ghost of the Red River Valley -- ch. 18. Hyporheos -- Riversketch : "Rivers of America" -- ch. 19. Salvelinus -- Riversketch : castor canadensis -- ch. 20. Trout of desert and mountain -- Riversketch : fish out of water -- ch. 21. Salmo -- Riversketch : the avian linkage -- ch. 22. Pacific salmon -- Riversketch : the blessed and the dammed -- ch. 23. Smallies, minnies, and cats -- Riversketch : Ozark rivers -- ch. 24. Return to the river -- Riversketch : Aldo Leopold and the river of the mother of God -- ch. 25. Invertebrate drift -- Riversketch : wild and scenic.