Product Description

This book provides a common language for improving communication between researchers, biologists, environmental engineers and others managing or studying riverine environments. It summarises stream classification, stream rehabilitation and methods for determining instream flow requirements.

• Includes the most recent rapid developments in the area of stream rehabilitation and the setting of environmental flows
• a new Windows based set of revised programmes of the computer package AQUAPAK will be available

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1335019 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 444 pages

From the Publisher
Presents various methods for diagnosing the physical conditions of streams. Improves communications between the interdisciplinary applications of stream hydrology, biology and engineering to solve a number of problems such as the rehabilitation of streams; classifying streams for environmental values; the design of operating procedures and fishways for dams; and the simulation of field hydraulic characteristics in laboratory flumes to study flow patterns around obstacles and organisms. Numerous examples are given so that the principles can be more readily applied. Computer software is available to allow readers to easily carry out computations without detailed knowledge of mathematics involved.

From the Back Cover
Water plays an important part in today's environmental concerns. Since the publication of the first edition there have been rapid developments in the application of hydrology, geomorphology and ecology to stream management. In particular, growth has occurred in the areas of stream rehabilitation and the evaluation of environmental flow needs. The concept of stream health has been adopted as a way of assessing stream resources and setting management goals.

Stream Hydrology: An Introduction for Ecologists Second Edition documents recent research and practice in these areas. Chapters provide information on sampling, field techniques, stream analysis, the hydrodynamics of moving water, channel form, sediment transport and commonly used statistical methods such as flow duration and flood frequency analysis. Methods are presented from engineering hydrology, fluvial geomorphology and hydraulics with examples of their biological implications. This book demonstrates how these fields are linked and utilised in modern, scientific river management.

• Emphasis on applications, from collecting and analysing field measurements to using data and tools in stream management.
• Updated to include new sections on environmental flows, rehabilitation, measuring stream health and stream classification.
• Critical reviews of the successes and failures of implementation.
• Revised and updated windows-based software.

This book is essential reading for 2^nd/3^rd year undergraduates and postgraduates of hydrology, stream ecology and fisheries science in Departments of Physical Geography, Biology, Environmental Science, Landscape Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Limnology. It would be valuable reading for professionals working in stream ecology, fisheries science and habitat management, environmental consultants and engineers.

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Customer Reviews

excellent textbook
This is a technically accurate guide to Hydrology with ample examples from real bodies of water with some advanced math.

Good Textbook
This was a textbook for a hydrology course, it's an easy read, even for the non-hydrologist/ geographer. Lots of good exercises and suggestions for in-field experiments.

Good
This book is a good book. It give me knowledge concerning use of hydrology knowledge and ecology in water system.