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Contents
Role of size on fate and transport | 5 |
Variability and scale in the river system | 13 |
Conclusions | 19 |
Organic Matter Size Dynamics in the Amazon River | 25 |
References | 34 |
Role of N fixation for the Amazon flood plain | 43 |
Total Mercury Distribution and Importance of | 49 |
Methodology | 52 |
Conclusions | 108 |
Floodplain lakes | 117 |
Functional feeding groups 26 | 126 |
Hydrologies Controls of Ecological Structure and Function | 133 |
Water quality 140 | 142 |
Environmental problems resulting from hydrological alterations | 148 |
Hydrology and Y ater Quality in the Piracicaba River Basin | 159 |
River biogeochemistry and changes caused by human impacts | 165 |
basic concepts and in situ evaluations Application | 59 |
References | 65 |
Conceptual framework | 71 |
regional characteristics of running water ecosystems | 77 |
Discussion and perspectives | 86 |
Ecohydrology of Riparian Forests in the Orinoco River Basin | 93 |
Rainfall composition in the Piracicaba River basin | 173 |
The Ecohydrology of the Paraiba do Sul River Southeast Brazil | 179 |
Heavy metal dynamics | 186 |
The Application of Ecohydrological Principles for Better Water | 193 |
Natural attenuation in river and wetland systems | 201 |
Common terms and phrases
Amazon basin Amazon River Andean aquatic Beni River benthic benthos biogeochemical Biogeochemistry biological biomass Bolivian Amazonian basin Brazil Brazilian Caura central Amazon characteristics climate colloidal communities composition confluence contamination denitrification density Devol discharge downstream Drago drainage drainage basin dry season dynamics ecohydrological Ecology ecoregions ecosystems Environmental environments factors fish fixation flood plain fluvial fluxes Forsberg fraction freshwater geomorphological Guyot habitat Hedges hydro-ecoregions hydrological important inorganic input inundation invertebrates Junk Limnology lowlands Madeira Madeira River mainstem Manaus Mapire Martinelli mercury concentrations mineral nitrogen nutrient Obidos organic matter Orinoco Pantanal Paraguay River Paraiba parameters Parana River particulate Paulo Piracicaba Piracicaba River basin processes region Richey Rio Negro riparian river systems riverine São Paulo secondary channels sediments soils Solimoes species stream structure studies surface suspended sediment suspended solids terrestrial transport tributaries tropical Universidade variability vegetation Wasson wetlands Yungas zone
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Ecohydrology of South American Rivers and Wetlands Issue 6 of IAHS special publication, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, ISSN 1024-4891 |
| Editor | Michael E. McClain |
| Contributor | International Association of Hydrological Sciences |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1901502023, 9781901502022 |
| Length | 209 pages |
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