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Methods in Stream Ecology, Two Volume Set

Ecosystem Structure (Volume 1) and Ecosystem Function (Volume 2)

  • 3rd Edition - October 25, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: F. Richard Hauer, Gary Lamberti
  • Language: English

Methods in Stream Ecology: Third Edition, Volume 1 (Ecosystem Structure) and Volume 2 (Ecosystem Function), provides a complete series of field and laboratory protocols in stream… Read more

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Description

Methods in Stream Ecology: Third Edition, Volume 1 (Ecosystem Structure) and Volume 2 (Ecosystem Function), provides a complete series of field and laboratory protocols in stream and river ecology that are ideal for teaching or conducting research. This new two-part edition is updated to reflect recent advances in the technology associated with ecological assessment of streams, including remote sensing and molecular approaches. Volume 1 covers physical processes, stream biota, and community interactions. Volume 2 covers organic matter dynamics, ecosystem processes, and ecosystem assessment. This new edition is essential for all students and researchers in stream and river ecology, freshwater biology, coastal ecology and watershed ecology. This book is also supportive as a supplementary text for courses in watershed ecology/science, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology and landscape ecology.

Key features

  • Provides a variety of basic and advanced exercises in each chapter
  • Includes detailed instructions, illustrations, formulae and data sheets for laboratory and in-field research for students
  • Presents taxonomic keys to common stream fishes, invertebrates, bryophytes, and algae
  • Includes website with electronic spreadsheets and downloadable figures for class presentations
  • Written by leading international experts in stream ecology

Readership

Faculty, graduate students, researchers, consultants, advanced undergraduates, federal, state and local government officials interested in and responsible for stream evaluation and monitoring

Table of contents

Section A. Physical Processes

1. Riverscapes

2. Valley Segments, Stream Reaches, and Channel Units

3. Discharge Measurements and Streamflow Analysis

4. Dynamics of Flowing Water

5. Fluvial Geomorphic Processes

6. Temperature

7. Light

8. Hyporheic Zones

Section B. Stream Biota

9. Heterotrophic Bacteria Production and Microbial Community Assessment

10. Fungi: Biomass, Production, and Community Structure

11. Benthic Stream Algae: Distribution and Structure

12. Biomass and Pigments of Benthic Algae

13. Macrophytes and Bryophytes

14. Meiofauna

15. Macroinvertebrates

16. Fish Assemblages

17. Amphibians and Reptiles

Section C. Community Interactions

18. Invertebrate Consumer–Resource Interactions

19. Macroconsumer–Resource Interactions

20. Trophic Relationships of Macroinvertebrates

21. Macroinvertebrate Drift, Adult Insect Emergence and Oviposition

22. Trophic Relations of Stream Fishes

Section D. Organic Matter Dynamics

23. Stable Isotopes in Stream Food Webs　

24. Dissolved Organic Matter　

25. Transport and Storage of Fine Particulate Organic Matter　

26. Coarse Particulate Organic Matter: Storage, Transport, and Retention　

27. Leaf-Litter Breakdown　

28. Riparian Processes and Interactions　

29. Dynamics of Wood

Section E. Ecosystem Processes



30. Conservative and Reactive Solute Dynamics

31. Nutrient Limitation and Uptake　

32. Nitrogen Transformations　

33. Phosphorus Limitation, Uptake, and Turnover in Benthic Stream Algae　

34. Stream Metabolism

35. Secondary Production and Quantitative Food Webs

36. Elemental Content of Stream Biota　

Section F. Ecosystem Assessment



37. Ecological Assessment With Benthic Algae　

38. Macroinvertebrates as Biotic Indicators of Environmental Quality

39. Environmental Quality Assessment Using Stream Fishes

40. Establishing Cause-Effect Relationships in Multistressor Environments　　

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 25, 2017
  • Language: English

About the editors

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F. Richard Hauer

F. Richard (Ric) Hauer, is Director of the University of Montana’s Center for Integrated Research on the Environment (CIRE) and Professor of Stream Ecology at the Flathead Lake Biological Station where he taught Stream Ecology for >25 years. His major research interests encompass the broad, interdisciplinary field of ecosystem ecology with focus on freshwaters, especially running waters and gravel-bed river floodplains and wetlands. The breadth of his research spans from physical processes of sediment transport and groundwater/surface water interactions to aquatic insect life histories and ecosystem assessment. He is particularly interested in the application of remotely sensed data to understanding biophysical processes of floodplain ecology. To this end, he pilots his own airplane in the acquisition of digital imagery used to evaluate the landscape scale linkages between hydrology, geomorphology and ecology in river and floodplain ecosystems. Dr. Hauer has conducted his research around the eastern Pacific-rim from Alaska to Patagonia; his primary research site being the transboundary Crown-of-the-Continent Ecosystem and the Flathead River of Montana and British Columbia. While it was the fascination with aquatic invertebrates, especially caddisflies, that captured his interest, it has been his love for streams and rivers as disproportionately important components of biodiversity of mountain landscapes that has maintained that passion. Dr. Hauer has published >100 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as Science, Science Advances, BioScience and Freshwater Science. In addition to his personal research, he has served at the national level in developing environmental policy and implementation of environmental assessment in the Clean Water Act working with both the US Army Corps of Engineers and the US EPA. Ric is past-President of the international scientific society “Society for Freshwater Science.” At the University of Montana, Hauer held the Stream Ecology Endowed Chair at Flathead Lake Biological Station from 2000-2016 and received the university’s Distinguished Scholar Award in 2011. He is founding director of the university’s interdisciplinary sciences graduate program, Systems Ecology.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Montana, Polson, Montana, USA

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Gary Lamberti

Dr. Gary A. Lamberti is Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Stream and Wetland Ecology Laboratory (SWEL) at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches Biostatistics, Stream Ecology, Restoration Ecology, and a variety of topical graduate courses. His major research interests include (1) food web ecology of streams and wetlands, ranging from microbes to fish; (2) the ecology of native and introduced Pacific salmon; and (3) the impacts of climate change, toxins, and invasive species on aquatic ecosystem function. He retains a fundamental love for aquatic invertebrates, which permeates all of his research. He has also successfully advised 27 M.S. and Ph.D. students to completion and countless undergraduates have conducted research in his laboratory. Dr. Lamberti has over 175 publications dealing with various aspects of aquatic ecology, and has co-edited the Elsevier book entitled Methods in Stream Ecology, now in its 3rd edition. At Notre Dame, he also directs the GLOBES Graduate Certificate Program in Environment and Society. Dr. Lamberti is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and past-President of the Society for Freshwater Science, an international society of aquatic ecologists.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA