The Riverine Ecosystem Synthesis

✏Book Title : The Riverine Ecosystem Synthesis
✏Author : James H. Thorp
✏Publisher : Elsevier
✏Release Date : 2010-07-27
✏Pages : 232
✏ISBN : 0080888003
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Riverine Ecosystem Synthesis Book Summary : This book presents the most comprehensive model yet for describing the structure and functioning of running freshwater ecosystems. Riverine Ecosystems Synthesis (RES) is a result of combining several theories published in recent decades, dealing with aquatic and terrestrial systems. New analyses are fused with a variety of new perspectives on how river network ecosystems are structured and function, and how they change along longitudinal, lateral, and temporal dimensions. Among these novel perspectives is a dramatically new view of the role of hydrogeomorphic forces in forming functional process zones from headwaters to the mouths of great rivers. Designed as a useful tool for aquatic scientists worldwide whether they work on small streams or great rivers and in forested or semi-arid regions, this book will provide a means for scientists to understand the fundamental and applied aspects of rivers in general and includes a practical guide and protocols for analyzing individual rivers. Specific examples of rivers in at least four continents (Africa, Australia, Europe and North America) serve to illustrate the power and utility of the RES concept. Develops the classic, seminal article in River Research and Applications, "A Model of Biocomplexity in River Networks Across Space and Time" which introduced the RES concept for the first time A guide to the practical analysis of individual rivers, extending its use from pristine ecosystems to modern, human-modified rivers An essential aid both to the study fundamental and applied aspects of rivers, such as rehabilitation, management, monitoring, assessment, and flow manipulation of networks

✏Book Title : Riverine Ecosystem Management
✏Author : Stefan Schmutz
✏Publisher : Springer
✏Release Date : 2018-05-08
✏Pages : 571
✏ISBN : 9783319732503
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Riverine Ecosystem Management Book Summary : This open access book surveys the frontier of scientific river research and provides examples to guide management towards a sustainable future of riverine ecosystems. Principal structures and functions of the biogeosphere of rivers are explained; key threats are identified, and effective solutions for restoration and mitigation are provided. Rivers are among the most threatened ecosystems of the world. They increasingly suffer from pollution, water abstraction, river channelisation and damming. Fundamental knowledge of ecosystem structure and function is necessary to understand how human acitivities interfere with natural processes and which interventions are feasible to rectify this. Modern water legislation strives for sustainable water resource management and protection of important habitats and species. However, decision makers would benefit from more profound understanding of ecosystem degradation processes and of innovative methodologies and tools for efficient mitigation and restoration. The book provides best-practice examples of sustainable river management from on-site studies, European-wide analyses and case studies from other parts of the world. This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of aquatic ecology, river system functioning, conservation and restoration, to postgraduate students, to institutions involved in water management, and to water related industries.

✏Book Title : Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources
✏Author : Ellen Wohl
✏Publisher : Springer
✏Release Date : 2017-08-31
✏Pages : 151
✏ISBN : 9783319651248
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources Book Summary : 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.

✏Book Title : Global Change and River Ecosystems Implications for Structure Function and Ecosystem Services
✏Author : R. Jan Stevenson
✏Publisher : Springer
✏Release Date : 2015-03-21
✏Pages : 278
✏ISBN : 9789400706088
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Global Change and River Ecosystems Implications for Structure Function and Ecosystem Services Book Summary : Rivers around the world are threatened by changes in land use, climate, hydrologic cycles, and biodiversity. Global changes in rivers include, but are not restricted to water flow interruptions, temperature increases, loss of hydrological connectivity, altered water residence times, changes in nutrient loads, increasing arrival of new chemicals, simplification of the physical structure of the systems, occurrence of invasive species, and biodiversity losses. All of them affect the structure and functioning of the river ecosystem, and thereby, their ecosystem services. Understanding the responses of river ecosystems and their services to global change is essential for protecting human well being in all corners of the planet. Rivers provide critical benefits by providing food from fisheries and irrigation, regulating biogeochemical balances, and enriching our aesthetic and cultural experience. Predicting responses of rivers to global change is challenged by the complexity of interactions among these man-made drivers across a mosaic of natural hydrogeomorphic and climatic settings. This book explores the broad range of determinants defining global change and their effects on river ecosystems. Authors have provided thoughtful and insightful treatments of specific topics that relate to the broader theme of global change regulation of river ecosystems.

✏Book Title : Thorp and Covich s Freshwater Invertebrates
✏Author : James H. Thorp
✏Publisher : Elsevier
✏Release Date : 2014-09-06
✏Pages : 1148
✏ISBN : 9780123850270
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Thorp and Covich s Freshwater Invertebrates Book Summary : Readers familiar with the first three editions of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (edited by J.H. Thorp and A.P. Covich) will welcome the comprehensive revision and expansion of that trusted professional reference manual and educational textbook from a single North American tome into a developing multi-volume series covering inland water invertebrates of the world. The series entitled Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates (edited by J.H. Thorp) begins with the current Volume I: Ecology and General Biology (edited by J.H. Thorp and D.C. Rogers), which is designed as a companion volume for the remaining books in the series. Those following volumes provide taxonomic coverage for specific zoogeographic regions of the world, starting with Keys to Nearctic Fauna (Vol. II) and Keys to Palaearctic Fauna (Vol. III). Volume I maintains the ecological and general biological focus of the previous editions but now expands coverage globally in all chapters, includes more taxonomic groups (e.g., chapters on individual insect orders), and covers additional functional topics such as invasive species, economic impacts, and functional ecology. As in previous editions, the 4th edition of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates is designed for use by professionals in universities, government agencies, and private companies as well as by undergraduate and graduate students. Global coverage of aquatic invertebrate ecology Discussions on invertebrate ecology, phylogeny, and general biology written by international experts for each group Separate chapters on invasive species and economic impacts and uses of invertebrates Eight additional chapters on insect orders and a chapter on freshwater millipedes Four new chapters on collecting and culturing techniques, ecology of invasive species, economic impacts, and ecological function of invertebrates Overall expansion of ecology and general biology and a shift of the even more detailed taxonomic keys to other volumes in the projected 9-volume series Identification keys to lower taxonomic levels

✏Book Title : Hydrology and the Management of Watersheds
✏Author : Kenneth N. Brooks
✏Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
✏Release Date : 2012-10-01
✏Pages : 552
✏ISBN : 9781118459744
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Hydrology and the Management of Watersheds Book Summary : This new edition is a major revision of the popular introductory reference on hydrology and watershed management principles, methods, and applications. The book's content and scope have been improved and condensed, with updated chapters on the management of forest, woodland, rangeland, agricultural urban, and mixed land use watersheds. Case studies and examples throughout the book show practical ways to use web sites and the Internet to acquire data, update methods and models, and apply the latest technologies to issues of land and water use and climate variability and change.

✏Book Title : Ecosystem Rehabilitation Ecosystem analysis and synthesis
✏Author : Mohan K. Wali
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 1992
✏Pages : 230
✏ISBN : WISC:89037909827
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Ecosystem Rehabilitation Ecosystem analysis and synthesis Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Ecological Restoration
✏Author : George H. Pardue
✏Publisher : Nova Science Pub Incorporated
✏Release Date : 2009
✏Pages : 239
✏ISBN : STANFORD:36105133005699
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Ecological Restoration Book Summary : Human exploitation of stream and land ecosystems has created the need to preserve, restore and rehabilitate. This book discusses the scientific basis of restoration for ecological improvement and some key issues associated with overall projects. In addition, some of the challenges and opportunities for further research in river restoration science is explored and the associated fields of ecohydraulics and eco-hydromorphology. An analysis of the effects of river side-arm restoration on ecosystem functions is also included, as well as an experimental approach to assessing marsh restoration as compared to a strict monitoring process. The concept of combinatorial biodiversity auction is discussed in this book, showing that the combinatorial biodiversity auction can allow farmers to benefit from cost complementarities and help to maximise biodiversity outcomes within a given budget. Also included is a presentation of the need for restoration and rehabilitation projects developed according to an ecological theory considering species life history, habitat template and spatio-temporal scope, the bi-directional effect of self-renaturalisation processes on the environment and a study on how different river typologies may alter the evaluations of biological quality.

✏Book Title : River Futures
✏Author : Society for Ecological Restoration International
✏Publisher : Science and Practice of Ecolog
✏Release Date : 2008-06-30
✏Pages : 304
✏ISBN : STANFORD:36105131653219
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏River Futures Book Summary : Across much of the industrialized world, rivers that were physically transformed and ecologically ruined to facilitate industrial and agricultural development are now the focus of restoration and rehabilitation efforts. River Futures discusses the emergence of this new era of river repair and documents a comprehensive biophysical framework for river science and management. The book considers what can be done to maximize prospects for improving river health while maintaining or enhancing the provision of ecosystem services over the next fifty to one-hundred years. It provides a holistic overview of considerations that underpin the use of science in river management, emphasizing cross-disciplinary understanding that builds on a landscape template. The book frames the development of integrative river science and its application to river rehabilitation programs develops a coherent set of guiding principles with which to approach integrative river science considers the application of cross-disciplinary thinking in river rehabilitation experiences from around the world examines the crossover between science and management, outlining issues that must be addressed to promote healthier river futures Case studies explore practical applications in different parts of the world, highlighting approaches to the use of integrative river science, measures of success, and steps that could be taken to improve performance in future efforts. River Futures offers a positive, practical, and constructive focus that directly addresses the major challenge of a new era of river conservation and rehabilitation—that of bringing together the diverse and typically discipline-bound sets of knowledge and practices that are involved in repairing rivers. It is a valuable resource for anyone involved in river restoration and management, including restorationists, scientists, managers, and policymakers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students.

✏Book Title : Synthesis of U S Geological Survey Science for the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem and Implications for Environmental Management
✏Author : Scott W. Phillips
✏Publisher : Geological Survey (USGS)
✏Release Date : 2007
✏Pages : 63
✏ISBN : 1411320212
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Synthesis of U S Geological Survey Science for the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem and Implications for Environmental Management Book Summary : The purpose of this report is to present a synthesis of the USGS Chesapeake Bay science related to the 2001-06 goals and provide implications for environmental management. The report provides USGS findings that address the science needs of the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) restoration goals and includes summaries of 1. land-use change; 2. water quality in the watershed, including nutrients, sediment, and contaminants; 3. long-term changes in climate and estuarine water quality; 4. estuary habitats, focusing on submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) and tidal wetlands; and 5. factors affecting fish and waterbird populations.

✏Book Title : River Confluences Tributaries and the Fluvial Network
✏Author : Stephen Rice
✏Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Incorporated
✏Release Date : 2008-09-02
✏Pages : 456
✏ISBN : UOM:39015082752703
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏River Confluences Tributaries and the Fluvial Network Book Summary : River Confluences and the Fluvial Network brings together state of the art thinking on confluence dynamics tributary impacts and the links between processes at these scales and river network functions. The book is unique in focus, content, scope and in bringing together engineering, ecological and geomorphological approaches to the three key areas of river system science. Taking a global approach this multi-authored text features a team of carefully selected, internationally renowned, experts who have all contributed significantly to recent ground breaking advancements in the field. Each chapter includes a comprehensive review of work to date highlighting recent discoveries and the main thrust of knowledge, previously unpublished research and case studies, challenges and questions, detailed references as well as a forward looking assessment of the state of the science.

✏Book Title : Northwest Science
✏Author :
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2008
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : MINN:31951P01059436V
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Northwest Science Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Environmental Flows
✏Author : Angela H. Arthington
✏Publisher : Univ of California Press
✏Release Date : 2012
✏Pages : 406
✏ISBN : 9780520273696
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Environmental Flows Book Summary : This book is a must read for water managers and freshwater and estuarine ecologists contending with ever-changing conditions influencing the flow of water. Angela Arthington is based at Griffith University, Queensland.

✏Book Title : Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages
✏Author : Robert M. Hughes
✏Publisher : Amer Fisheries Society
✏Release Date : 2006
✏Pages : 697
✏ISBN : UCSD:31822034776948
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages Book Summary : Linkages among landscape and associated physiochemical and biological characteristics of rivers are explored in the proceedings of a symposium, organized to foster communication among researchers, resource managers, and policy makers in landscape ecology, geographical information systems, and other related fields.

✏Book Title : Ecosystem Health and Integrated Monitoring in the Northern River Basins
✏Author : Kevin Joseph Cash
✏Publisher : Canadian Government Publishing
✏Release Date : 1996
✏Pages : 75
✏ISBN : MINN:31951D016292109
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Ecosystem Health and Integrated Monitoring in the Northern River Basins Book Summary : The NTBS was designed to address the ecological concerns about pulp mill expansion, and to increase scientific knowledge about environmental conditions [ecology, ecosystem sustainability, water pollution and control, habitat, effect on fish and fishing, etc.] in the major river systems of the north. The study's objectives were to gather and interpret sound scientific information about the basins, develop appropriate recommendations for basin management, and communicate effectively with the public. The government response report confirms the governments' commitment to ecosystem sustainability and to pollution control in northern rivers. First Nations and Metis aboriginal [native] peoples contributed significantly to the NRBS.

✏Book Title : International Journal of Ecohydrology Hydrobiology
✏Author :
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2006
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : STANFORD:36105123117413
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏International Journal of Ecohydrology Hydrobiology Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Environmental Overview of the Northern River Basins
✏Author : R. Bruce MacLock
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 1997
✏Pages : 124
✏ISBN : MINN:31951D01632721D
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Environmental Overview of the Northern River Basins Book Summary : Presents a synthesis of reports on the environmental and socio-economic characteristics of the Peace, Athabasca, and Slave river basins in northern Alberta. Includes information on basin hydrology, basin inhabitants, physiographic features (geology, soils, vegetation), climate and weather, fish and wildlife, land use (for urban development, agriculture, forestry, resource extraction, tourism, recreation, transportation, fishing, and hunting/trapping), water quality and quantity, and the jurisdictional framework for resource management in the basin area. The final chapter contains an outline of the history of the area and discussion of issues related to sustainable development in the basin area.

✏Book Title : Canadian Journal of Forest Research
✏Author :
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2010
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : MINN:31951P011297209
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Canadian Journal of Forest Research Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Wetlands
✏Author : Raymundo E. Russo
✏Publisher : Nova Science Pub Incorporated
✏Release Date : 2008
✏Pages : 446
✏ISBN : STANFORD:36105131760485
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Wetlands Book Summary : Wetlands are lands where saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living in the soil and on its surface. Wetlands vary widely because of regional and local differences in soils, topography, climate, hydrology, water chemistry, vegetation, and other factors, including human disturbance. Indeed, wetlands are found from the tundra to the tropics and on every continent except Antarctica. This book brings together the latest research in field.

✏Book Title : Laws Theories and Patterns in Ecology
✏Author : Walter Kennedy Dodds
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2009
✏Pages : 232
✏ISBN : STANFORD:36105134460729
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Laws Theories and Patterns in Ecology Book Summary : "Physics and chemistry are distinguished from biology by the way generalizations are codified into theories tested by observation and experimentation. This work enumerates generalizations in ecology. It describes how the practice of science, in general, and ecology specifically, yields theories and laws." -- BOOK PUBLISHER WEBSITE.

✏Book Title : Life History of Benthic Macroinvertebrates
✏Author : Patina Kimberly Mendez
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2007
✏Pages : 484
✏ISBN : UCAL:C3512734
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Life History of Benthic Macroinvertebrates Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
✏Author :
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2013
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : MINN:31951P01143492E
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Sediment Dynamics in Changing Environments
✏Author : IAHS International Commission on Continental Erosion. Symposium
✏Publisher : International Assn of Hydrological Sciences
✏Release Date : 2008
✏Pages : 624
✏ISBN : UVA:X030574750
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Sediment Dynamics in Changing Environments Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Inland Flood Hazards
✏Author : Ellen E. Wohl
✏Publisher : Cambridge University Press
✏Release Date : 2000-07-03
✏Pages : 498
✏ISBN : 0521624193
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Inland Flood Hazards Book Summary : A comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of issues related to inland flood hazards, this important work addresses physical controls on flooding, flood processes and effects, and responses to flooding, from the perspectives of human, aquatic, and riparian communities. The contributors, recognized experts in their fields, draw on examples and case studies of inland flood hazards from around the world. The volume is unique in that it addresses how the nonoccurrence of floods, in association with flow regulation and other human manipulation of river systems, may create hazards for aquatic and riparian communities. This book will be a valuable resource for all professionals concerned with inland flood hazards.

✏Book Title : Cumulative Impacts Within the Northern River Basins
✏Author : Frederick J. Wrona
✏Publisher : Canadian Government Publishing
✏Release Date : 1996
✏Pages : 101
✏ISBN : MINN:31951D016292117
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Cumulative Impacts Within the Northern River Basins Book Summary : The NTBS was designed to address the ecological concerns about pulp mill expansion, and to increase scientific knowledge about environmental conditions [ecology, ecosystem sustainability, water pollution and control, habitat, effect on fish and fishing, etc.] in the major river systems of the north. The study's objectives were to gather and interpret sound scientific information about the basins, develop appropriate recommendations for basin management, and communicate effectively with the public. The government response report confirms the governments' commitment to ecosystem sustainability and to pollution control in northern rivers. First Nations and Metis aboriginal [native] peoples contributed significantly to the NRBS.

✏Book Title : Living Rivers Trends and Challenges in Science and Management
✏Author : R.S.E.W. Leuven
✏Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
✏Release Date : 2007-12-20
✏Pages : 371
✏ISBN : 9781402053672
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Living Rivers Trends and Challenges in Science and Management Book Summary : This book demonstrates an integrated perspective of trends and challenges in sustainable river science and management, as presented by experts in the fields that form its foundations - ecology, economy and sociology. Their contributions integrate current knowledge of the structure, functioning and management of ‘living rivers’. Also included are data and experiences concerning the rivers Allier, Meuse, Rhine, Sava and Tagliamento in Europe and the Illinois River in the USA.

✏Book Title : Fundamental and Applied Limnology
✏Author :
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2009
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : UCSD:31822009546052
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Fundamental and Applied Limnology Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Marine Freshwater Research
✏Author :
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2011
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : UCSD:31822040982712
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Marine Freshwater Research Book Summary :

✏Book Title : A Synthesis of Information on Ecotoxicity of Pulp Mill Effluents in the Peace Athabasca and Slave River Basins
✏Author : Northern River Basins Study (Canada)
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 1997
✏Pages : 155
✏ISBN : MINN:31951D01475907A
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏A Synthesis of Information on Ecotoxicity of Pulp Mill Effluents in the Peace Athabasca and Slave River Basins Book Summary : Assesses acute and chronic effects of pulp mill effluents discharged in northern Alberta rivers, based on existing reports, data, and review papers. Includes discussion of the ecotoxicological significance of the effluents, information gaps, and further monitoring or study needed to fill those gaps. Reviews sources of ecotoxicity data, toxicity of pulp mill effluents, and the ecotoxicological significance of the effluents on fish, benthic assemblages, and human health.

✏Book Title : Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science
✏Author : Illinois State Academy of Science
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2013
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : UCLA:L0106069255
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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