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2017 | 1st ed. 2018
VIII, 151 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-65124-8 (ISBN)

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Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources - Ellen Wohl
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This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river. Rivers are commonly regarded from a very simplistic perspective as conduits for downstream flows of water. In this context, it may be considered acceptable and necessary to engineer the channel to either facilitate such flows (e.g., channelization, levees) or limit flows and store water (e.g., water supply reservoirs, flood control). The book presents the concept of a river as a spatially and temporally complex ecosystem that is likely to be disrupted in unexpected and damaging ways by direct river engineering and by human activities throughout a drainage basin. 

Viewing a river as a complex ecosystem with nonlinear responses to human activities will help to promote a more nuanced and effective approach to managing river ecosystems and to sustaining the water resources that derive from rivers. In this context, water resources refers to ecosystem services including water supply, water quality, flood control, erosion control, and riverine biota (e.g., freshwater fisheries). Chapters in this book draw extensively on existing literature but integrate this literature from a fresh perspective. General principles are expanded upon and illustrated with photographs, line drawings, tables, and brief, site-specific case studies from rivers around the world.


Dr. Ellen Wohl is a Professor of Geology in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on physical processes and form in rivers and is primarily field based. She has conducted field work in diverse locations from the arctic to the tropics, and has worked on hydraulics, sediment transport, channel geometry, physical-biological interactions in rivers, and human effects on rivers. Much of her current work focuses on instream wood and carbon storage in riverine environments.

Dr. Ellen Wohl is a Professor of Geology in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on physical processes and form in rivers and is primarily field based. She has conducted field work in diverse locations from the arctic to the tropics, and has worked on hydraulics, sediment transport, channel geometry, physical-biological interactions in rivers, and human effects on rivers. Much of her current work focuses on instream wood and carbon storage in riverine environments.

Chapter1. Introduction.- Chapter2. Rivers as Ecosystems.- Chapter3. Human Alterations of Rivers.- Chapter4. Toward Sustainable Rivers and Water Resources.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.8.2017
Reihe/Serie SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
Zusatzinfo VIII, 151 p. 54 illus., 49 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Schlagworte Active channel • Basin-scale planning • Flood control • Floodplain/riparian/hyporheic zone • Flood pulse model • Headwaters, floodplain & subsurface environments/processes • Human alterations of rivers • marine and freshwater sciences • Metrics of river health • River corridors • River ecosystems • River sustainability, restoration and rehabilitation • Terrestrial & aquatic environments • Water & sediment inputs • Water supply reservoirs
ISBN-10 3-319-65124-2 / 3319651242
ISBN-13 978-3-319-65124-8 / 9783319651248
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