► Description: |
Aiming to describe the role of dominant
ecological factors and of human activities
on the organisms of running water and the
functioning of the ecosystem, this work
covers the few European water courses that
are well known in ecological studies.
■ Content
• Chapter 1 Running water: agent of
erosion, transport and redistribution of
materials of the earth's crust
1. The water cycle
2. Erosion, transport and redistribution
of materials
2.1. Force of moving water
2.2. Load limit and competence of current
2.3. Modes of material transport
3. Transport in solution
4. Chemical characteristics of continental
waters
5. Assessment of material transport
• Chapter 2 General characteristics of
hydrographic networks
1. Drainage of watersheds
2. Flow of water
2.1. Flow in the substrate 2.2.
Sub-flow2.3. Flow in the plains
3. Water regime
3.1. Nival regime
3.2. Oceanic pluvial regime
3.3. Mediterranean regime
3.4. Watersheds with multiple regimes
4. Temperature of running waters
5. Correlations between parameters in
running water
• Chapter 3 Organisms and ecosystems of
running water
1. Marine and freshwater organisms
2. Oceanic, lacustrine, and running-water
ecosystems
2.1. Functioning of terrestrial, oceanic,
and lacustrine ecosystems
2.2. Functioning of running-water
ecosystems
2.3. Conclusions Chapter 4 Current and
benthic organisms: chronic instability of
the surface horizon of the substrate1.
Adaptation to the current
2. Drift of benthic organisms
2.1. Forms of drift
2.2. Floods and drift
2.3. Assessment of drift
3. Origin of superficial benthic
population
• Chapter 5 The hyporheic environment:
continuity of the substrate
1. Hyporheic fauna of superficial origin
2. Stygobious fauna of subterranean origin
3. Distribution of fauna in the hyporheic
environment
3.1. Origin of waters
3.2. Granulometry of the substrate
4. Origin and biogeography of stygobious
fauna 4.1. Stygobious fauna originating
from surface waters4.2. Stygobia of marine
origin
5. Conclusions
• Chapter 6 Macrophytes of running waters:
a substrate for algae and fauna
1. Bryophytes
1.1. Colonization of the substrate
1.2. Population of Bryophytes
2. Spermatophytes with rooted plant life
2.1. Colonization of the stream
environment
2.2. Fauna of rooted vegetation
• Chapter 7 Life in the water trail:
plankton
1. Transit time and development of
plankton
2. Modelling of phytoplankton development
and seasonal successions
3. Conclusions
• Chapter 8 Fish of running waters 1.
Swimming and the water current2.
Distribution of fish on a longitudinal
profile
3. Migration of fish
4. Geographical distribution of fish
5. Conclusions
• Chapter 9 Temperature, biological cycles
and distribution of organisms
1. Temperature and development of
organisms
1.1. Temperature thresholds and
temperature of maximum activity
1.2. Lethal temperatures, limits of
indefinite survival and population growth
rates
1.3. Temperature and time of development
2. Biological cycles: quiescence,
diapause, mono- and polyvoltinism
2.1. Biological cycle of species with
diapause
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