By Arthur C. Benke, Colbert E. Cushing
AWARDS:2006 notable educational identify, via CHOICEThe 2005 Award for Excellence in expert and Scholarly Publishing by means of the organization of yank Publishers (AAP) most sensible Reference 2005, by way of the Library JournalRivers of North the USA is a crucial reference for scientists, ecologists, and scholars learning rivers and their ecosystems. It brings jointly info from a number of neighborhood experts at the significant river basins of North the USA, offered in a large-format, full-color ebook. The advent covers common facets of geology, hydrology, ecology and human affects on rivers. this is often through 22 chapters at the significant river basins. each one bankruptcy starts with a full-page colour picture and comprises a number of extra pictures in the textual content. those chapters function 3 to 5 rivers of the basin/region, and canopy a number of different rivers with one-page summaries. Rivers chosen for assurance contain the biggest, the main usual, and the main stricken by human impression. This exceptional source is professionally illustrated with maps and colour photos of the main river basins. Readers can examine one river procedure to a different when it comes to its physiography, hydrology, ecology, biodiversity, and human affects. * large therapy offers a unmarried resource of data for North America's significant rivers* neighborhood experts offer authoritative info on greater than two hundred rivers* Full-color images and topographical maps reveal the wonder, significant good points, and specialty of every river approach* One-page summaries support readers fast locate key statistics and make comparisons between rivers
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Precipitation declines to <40 cm/yr in northern Canada River Geomorphology, Hydrology, and Chemistry This subsection describes the physical and chemical properties of the river itself. River geomorphology involves the physical structure of the river channel 6 Chapter Contents and Background and its floodplain. Hydrology describes the pattern and magnitude of river discharge through time and combines with geomorphology to create the physical habitats to which organisms have adapted. Water chemistry is important from at least two perspectives.
Authors of individual chapters usually have provided estimates of order for their rivers, but different approaches have been necessary. Some designations are from published information, some were determined directly from topographic maps, and some were determined indirectly from regressions of order and basin area. Thus, whereas stream order across chapters is not entirely consistent, it does provide some measure of river size within a region. , Leopold 1994, Rosgen 1994). It can be defined in part by slope or gradient (meters of vertical drop per kilometer of river length), shape of river cross section, and composition of bed substrate.
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