Man and River Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Biological communities

   1. Plankton dynamics in the river Rhine during downstream transport as influenced by biotic interactions and hydrological conditions

      • Th. Ietswaart, L. Breebaart, B. van Zanten, R. Bijkerk

      Pages 1-10

   2. Aquatic bryophyte assemblages along a gradient of regulation in the river Rhine

      • A. Vanderpoorten, J.-P. Klein

      Pages 11-16

   3. A macrophyte communities sequence as an indicator of eutrophication and acidification levels in weakly mineralised streams in north-eastern France

      • Gabrielle Thiébaut, Serge Muller

      Pages 17-24

   4. Use of oligochaete communities for assessment of ecotoxicological risk in fine sediment of rivers and canals of the Artois-Picardie water basin (France)

      • J. Prygiel, A. Rosso-Darmet, M. Lafont, C. Lesniak, A. Durbec, B. Ouddane

      Pages 25-37

   5. Contribution of the macrobenthic compartment to the oxygen budget of a large regulated river: the Mosel

      • Vincent Bachmann, Philippe Usseglio-Polatera

      Pages 39-46

   6. Contribution to the ecological quality of Aliakmon river (Macedonia, Greece): a multivariate approach

      • M. Lazaridou-Dimitriadou, V. Artemiadou, G. Yfantis, S. Mourelatos, Y. Mylopoulos

      Pages 47-58

   7. Multiple human impacts by the City of Paris on fish communities in the Seine river basin, France

      • Philippe Boët, Jérôme Belliard, Romuald Berrebi-dit-Thomas, Evelyne Tales

      Pages 59-68

   8. Rehabilitation efforts for Atlantic salmon in the Meuse basin area: Synthesis 1983–1998

      • C. Prignon, J. C. Micha, G. Rimbaud, J. C. Philippart

      Pages 69-77

   9. Biophysical interactions and the structure and dynamics of riverine ecosystems: the importance of biotic feedbacks

      • Robert J. Naiman, Scott R. Elliott, James M. Helfield, Thomas C. O’Keefe

      Pages 79-86

3. Eutrophication, nutrient dynamics and organic pollution

   1. Biogeochemical nutrient cycles and nutrient management strategies

      • Daniel J. Conley

      Pages 87-96

   2. Application of the ‘snapshot’ methodology to a basin-wide analysis of phosphorus and nitrogen at stable low flow

      • M. Salvia, J. F. Iffly, P. Vander Borght, M. Sary, L. Hoffmann

      Pages 97-102

   3. Nutrient runoff and transfer from land and rivers to the Gulf of Riga

      • Per Stålnacke, Nils Vagstad, Timo Tamminen, Paul Wassmann, Viesturs Jansons, Enn Loigu

      Pages 103-110

   4. Retention of nutrients in river systems: dependence on specific runoff and hydraulic load

      • Horst Behrendt, Dieter Opitz

      Pages 111-122

   5. Modelling nutrient fluxes from source to river load: a macroscopic analysis applied to the Rhine and Elbe basins

      • Marcel de Wit

      Pages 123-130

   6. Integrated modelling of hydrological processes and nutrient dynamics at the river basin scale

      • Valentina Krysanova, Alfred Becker

      Pages 131-138

   7. Nitrogen transfers through the Seine drainage network: a budget based on the application of the ‘Riverstrahler’ model

      • G. Billen, J. Garnier

      Pages 139-150

   8. Understanding the oxygen budget and related ecological processes in the river Mosel: the RIVERSTRAHLER approach

      • Josette Garnier, Gilles Billen, Laurent Palfner

      Pages 151-166

   9. Model-based analysis of oxygen budget and biological processes in the regulated rivers Moselle and Saar: modelling the influence of benthic filter feeders on phytoplankton

      • Andreas Schöl, Volker Kirchesch, Tanja Bergfeld, Dieter Müller

      Pages 167-176

   10. Optimal design and real time control of the integrated urban run-off system

       • P. Harremoës, W. Rauch

       Pages 177-184

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.

• Ecology
• Erosion
• Eutrophication
• Groundwater
• Phosphor
• Plankton
• Sediment
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• phytoplankton
• wetland
• water quality and water pollution

• UMR Sisyphe 7619 CNRS/UPMC, Paris, France

  Josette Garnier

• CEREVE, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Mame-la-Vallée, France

  Jean-Marie Mouchel

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