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Methods in Stream Ecology

Methods in Stream Ecology, Second Edition, provides a complete series of field and laboratory protocols in stream ecology that are ideal for teaching or conducting research.… Read more

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Methods in Stream Ecology, Second Edition, provides a complete series of field and laboratory protocols in stream ecology that are ideal for teaching or conducting research.

This updated edition reflects recent advances in the technology associated with ecological assessment of streams, including remote sensing. In addition, the relationship between stream flow and alluviation has been added, and a new chapter on riparian zones is also included.

The book features exercises in each chapter; detailed instructions, illustrations, formulae, and data sheets for in-field research for students; and taxanomic keys to common stream invertebrates and algae.

With a student-friendly price, this book is key for all students and researchers in stream and freshwater ecology, freshwater biology, marine ecology, and river ecology. This text is also supportive as a supplementary text for courses in watershed ecology/science, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, and landscape ecology.

Key features

  • Exercises in each chapter
  • Detailed instructions, illustrations, formulae, and data sheets for in-field research for students
  • Taxanomic keys to common stream invertebrates and algae
  • Link from Chapter 22: FISH COMMUNITY COMPOSITION to an interactive program for assessing and modeling fish numbers

Readership

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

Table of contents

Section A: Physical Processes

1. Landscapes And Catchment Basins

2. Valley Segments, Stream Reaches, And Channel Units

3. Discharge Measurements And Streamflow Analysis

4. Dynamics Of Flow

5. Temperature, Light, And Oxygen

6. Hyporheic Zones

Section B: Material Storage And Transport

7. Fluvial Geomorphic Processes

8. Solute Dynamics

9. Phosphorus Limitation, Uptake, And Turnover In Stream Algae

10. Nitrogen Dynamics

11. Dissolved Organic Carbon

12. Transport And Storage Of Fpom

13. Cpom And Large Wood

Section C: Stream Biota

14. Heterotrophic Mirobes

15. Fungi: Biomass, Production And Sporulation Of Aquatic Hyphomycetes

16. Benthic Algae: Distribution And Structure

17. Biomass And Pigments Of Benthic Algae

18. Macrophytes And Bryophytes

19. Meiofauna

20. Macroinvertebrates

21. Macroinvertebrate Movements: Drift, Colonization, And Emergence

22. Fish Community Composition

Section D: Community Interactions

23. Plant - Herbivore Interactions

24. Predator-Prey Interactions

25. Trophic Relations Of Macroinvertebrates

26. Trophic Relations Of Stream Fishes

27. Stream Food Webs

Section E: Ecosystem Processes

28. Primary Productivity And Community Respiration

29. Secondary Production Of Macroinvertebrates

30. Decomposition In Stream Ecosystems

31. Riparian Processes And Interactions

32. Effects Of Nutrient Enrichment On Periphyton

33. Surface-Subsurface Interactions In Streams

Section F: Ecosystem Quality

34. Algae As Biotic Indicators Of Environmental Quality

35. Macroinvertebrates As Biotic Indicators Of Environmental Quality

36. Pollution And Toxicological Assessment

Review quotes

"This book is packed with the latest and best ‘how to’ information for field and laboratory work in streams. The new edition has expanded content, a larger format, and much better graphics...The greatest content change is the addition of a 6th section entitled Ecosystem Quality. Section 6 is anchored by a substantially rewritten chapter on ‘Macroinvertebrates as Biotic Indicators of Environmental Quality’...I like the way in which doable, detailed, stepwise exercises, including the math, are provided in a format appealing to students interested in conducting stream studies...I think that even an advanced high school student with access to this book should be able design an independent study project in stream ecology. I would really like to see it in high school libraries, as well as on college and university campuses. The greatest strength of this book is that it is written by leading authorities in stream ecology. The structure is better organized and more informative than the previous edition. The format is conducive to teaching and learning. I grade this book an 'A'. —Ben Stout, Wheeling Jesuit University, West Virginia, USA

Product details

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

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