Man and River Systems: The Functioning of River Systems at the Basin Scale

ISBN-13: 9789048153930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 355 str.

Josselin Garnier; J. -M Mouchel

Opis

The volume focuses on the ecological functioning of rivers, which has received less attention than functioning of lakes and reservoirs. The selected papers cover a large range of topics relating to aquatic communities, eutrophication, nutrient dynamics and organic pollution, erosion and sediment transport, and fate of micropollutants at the basin scale. Integrated approaches developed in order to study the ecological functioning of fluvial systems perturbed by human activity are presented. This functioning is analysed from the point of view of fundamental research, but insights into system management are not neglected.
This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of aquatic ecology, river system functioning, and water surface pollution, to postgraduate students, to the institutions involved in water resource management, and to the drinking water and waste water treatment industries. It draws information from many large river systems in the world.

Spis treści

Introduction. A basin scale framework for the study of Human pressure on river system functioning; J. Garnier, J.-M. Mouchel. Part One: Biological communities. Plankton dynamics in the Rhine during downstream transport as influenced by biotic interactions and hydrological conditions; T. Ietswaart, et al. Aquatic bryophyte assemblage along a gradient of regulation in the river rhine; A. Vanderpoorten, J.-P. Klein. A macrophyte communities sequence as an indicator of eutrophication and acidification levels in weakly mineralised streams in north-eastern France; T. Thiebaut, S. Muller. Use of Oligochaete communities for assessment of the ecotoxicological risks in fine sediment of rivers and canals in the Artois-Picardie water basin (France); J. Prygiel, et al. Contribution of the macrobenthic compartment to the oxygen budget of a large regulate river: the Mosel; V. Bachmann, P. Usselglio-Polatera. Contribution to the ecological quality of Aliakmon River (Macedonia, Hellas): A multivariate approach; M. Lazaridou-Dimitriadou, et al. Multiple anthropogenic impacts induced by Paris on fish communities in the Seine River basin, France; Ph. Boët, et al. Rehabilitation efforts for atlantic salmon in the Meuse Basin area; C. Prignon, et al. Biophysical interactions and the structure and dynamics of Riverine Ecosystems; R. Naiman. Part Two: Eutrophication, nutrient dynamics and organic pollution. Biogeochemical nutrient cycles and nutrient strategies; D. Conley. Application of the `snapshot' methodology to a basin-wide analysis of phosphorus and nitrogen at stable low flow; M. Salvia, et al. Nutrient runoff and transfer from land and rivers to the gulf of Riga; P. Stalnacke, et al. Retention of nutrients in river systems: Dependence on specific runoffand hydraulic load; H. Behrendt, D. Opitz. Modelling nutrient flow from source to river load: A macroscopic analysis applied to the Rhine and Elbe basins; M.J.M. de Wit. Integrated modelling of hydrological processes and nutrient dynamics at the basin scale; V. Krysanova, A. Becker. Nitrogen transfers through the Seine drainage network: a budget based on the application of the `Riverstrahler' Model; G. Billen, J. Garnier. Understanding to oxygen budget and related ecological processes in the Mosel River: the Riverstrahler approach; J. Garnier, et al. Model-based analysis of oxygen budget and biological processes in the regulated rivers Moselle and Saar: Modelling the influence of benthic feeders on phytoplankton; A. Schöl, et al. Optimal design and real time control of the integrated urban run-off system; P. Harremoës, W. Rauch. Quantification of nitrates removal by a flooded alluvial zone of the Ill floodplain (East of France); J.M. Sanchez Perez, et al. The impact of hydrological fluctuations on shallow groundwater hydrochemistry under two alluvial meadows; L. Krebs, et al. Scenario analysis of nutrient management at the river basin scale; B. Kronvang, et al. Methodology for multifunctional assessment or vierine wetlands in the Seine River basin; E. Fustec, et al. Part Three: Erosion and sediment transport. Linking land use, erosion and sediment yields in river basins; D.E. Walling. High frequency variation of water flux and sediment discharge during the Little Ice Age (1586-1725 AD) in the Rhone Delta (Mediterranean, France). Relationship to the catchment basin; G. Arnaud-Fassetta, M. Provansal. Estimation of soil loss and sediment yield using suspended sediment load and 137 Cs measurements in agricultural land, Brie Plateau, France; S. Sogon, e