Nile

Origin, Environments, Limnology and Human Use

AvHenri J. Dumont

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Monographiae Biologicae

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Beskrivning

What have we learnt about the Nile since the mid-1970s, the moment when Julian Rzóska decided that the time had come to publish a comprehensive volume about the biology, and the geological and cultural history of that great river?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-23
Mått:155 x 235 x 45 mm
Vikt:1 241 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Monographiae Biologicae
Antal sidor:819
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789401777209

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Innehållsförteckning

A Description of the Nile Basin, and a Synopsis of Its History, Ecology, Biogeography, Hydrology, and Natural Resources.- The Nile: History of Scientific Research.- Origin.- Cenozoic Evolution of the Nile Basin.- Late Quaternary Environments in the Nile Basin.- Major Nilotic Environments.- The Nile Delta.- The Fayum Depression and Its Lakes.- Lake Nasser—Nubia.- The Toshka Lakes.- Lake Tana: Source of the Blue Nile.- Swamps of the Upper White Nile.- The Kyoga Catchment.- Lake Victoria.- Rwenzori Mountains (Mountains of the Moon): Headwaters of the White Nile.- Nilotic Lakes of the Western Rift.- Lake Turkana and Its Link to the Nile.- Climates and Hydrology.- Nile Basin Climates.- The Hydrology of the Nile Basin.- Limnology and Biological Diversity.- Physical and Chemical Water Characteristics.- River Nile Pollutants and Their Effect on Life Forms and Water Quality.- Bacteria and Viruses in the Nile.- Phytoplankton: Composition, Development and Productivity.- Hydrophytes of the Nile inEgypt.- Aquatic Plants of the Sudan.- The Cnidaria of the Nile Basin.- The Oligochaeta of the Nile Basin Revisited.- The Crustacean Zooplankton (Copepoda, Branchiopoda), Atyid Decapoda, and Syncarida of the Nile Basin.- Freshwater Crabs and Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Nile Basin.- The Nile Benthos.- Freshwater Molluscs of the Nile Basin, Past and Present.- Aquatic Insects of the Nile Basin, with Emphasis on the Odonata.- Fish Fauna of the Nile.- Fossil Fish from the Nile River and Its Southern Basins.- Birds of the Nile.- Human Use.- Fisheries in the Nile System.- Nile Basin Asymmetries: A Closed Fresh Water Resource, Soil Water Potential, the Political Economy and Nile Transboundary Hydropolitics.- Human Impact on the Nile Basin: Past, Present, Future.- Erratum.