Environmental flow assessment : methods and applications

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Title:

Author:

Williams, John G., 1941- author.

ISBN:

9781119217381

9781119217398

9781119217374

9781119217367

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Series:

Advancing River Restoration and Management Ser.

Contents:

An introduction to environmental flows -- A brief history of environmental flow assessment -- A primer on flow in rivers and streams -- Life in and around streams -- Tools for environmental flow assessment -- Environmental flow methods -- Good modeling practice for EFA -- Dams and channel morphology -- Improving the use of existing evidence and expert opinion in environmental flow assessments -- Summary conclusions and recommendations.

Abstract:

4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Structure of stream ecosystems; 4.2.1 Across-channel gradients; 4.2.2 Upstream-downstream gradient; 4.3 Adaptations of stream organisms; 4.3.1 Morphological adaptations; 4.3.2 Physiological adaptations; 4.3.3 Behavioral adaptations; 4.4 Adapting to extreme flows; 4.5 Synthesis; 4.6 Environmental flows and fish assemblages; 4.7 Conclusions; Chapter 5 Tools for environmental flow assessment; Summary; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Descriptive tools; 5.2.1 Graphical tools and images; 5.2.2 Stream classifications; 5.2.3 Habitat classifications; 5.2.4 Species classifications

Local Note:

John Wiley and Sons

Subject Term:

Stream measurements.

Stream ecology.

Environmental impact analysis.

Environmental impact statements.

Cours d'eau -- Jaugeage.

Environnement -- Études d'impact.

SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.

SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.

Hydrology.