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Watersheds: a practical handbook to healthy water
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Publisher
Firefly Books
Publication Date
1998
Language
English
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Ch. 1. What is a watershed?: A typical watershed
Magnification of environmental problems
North American bioregions and their watersheds
Eastern deciduous and mixed forest bioregion
Boreal forest and Tundra bioregion
Grassland bioregion
West Coast Rainforest bioregion
Desert bioregion
Ch. 2. How watersheds work : water and nutrient cycles: The water cycle
Aquifers and groundwater
The carbon cycle
The nitrogen cycle
The sulfur cycle
The phosphorus cycle
Ch. 3. From headwaters to outflows : parts of a watershed: Wetlands
Marshes
Bogs
Fens
Swamps
The flowing waters of streams and rivers
The still waters of ponds and lakes
Lake ecology
Estuaries: Where rivers meet the sea
Rocky estuaries
Saltwater marshes
Eel grass beds
Ch. 4. Natural changes within watersheds: Beaver ponds and meadows
Natural succession of plant communities
Floods
Eutrophication of ponds and small lakes
Ch. 5. Air pollution: Ozone
Good ozone: The ozone layer
Bad ozone: Problems at ground level
The Greenhouse effect
Acid rain
Acid shock in meltwater pools
Dead lakes
Forest decline
Effects of soils and winds
How can I help?
Ch. 6. Water pollution: Bioconcentration and the effects of contaminants
Biomagnification
Industrial sources of water pollution
Oil spillage industry
Thermal pollution
Radioactive wastes
Urban sources of water pollution
The moral of summer thunderstorms
Sewage treatment and water filtration
Alternative sewage treatment nitrogen and phosphorus pollution: Too much of a good thing?
Agricultural and rural sources of water pollution
How can I help?:Water pollution
How can I help?: Environmentally friendly cleaners
Ch. 7. The impact of exotic species : hidden invaders: Deceptive beauty: Purple loosestrife
Sea lampreys in the Great Lakes
Norway maples and the native forest
How can I help?: Exotic species
Ch. 8. Habitat loss and degradation: Meddling with the flow of water: Dams and other intrusions
Dams
Forestry issues
Logging practices
Additional forestry problems
Alternative logging practices
How can I help?: Saving the forests
Agricultural and rural issues
Prairie sloughs
Farming the bottom lands
How can I help?: Habitat on the working farm
Urban and suburban issues
Urban rivers
Problems with fragmented habitats: Landscape ecology
The edge effect
Wildlife corridors
Ch. 9. Ecological restoration : righting environmental wrongs: Restoring habitats close to Home
The multiple benefits of native plants
How can I help?: Restoring backyards
How can I help?: Stream and river restoration
Assessing Your local stream: How clean is the water?
Biological indicators of water Quality
Bioindicator species for fast-flowing streams
Appendices: The five kingdoms of living things
Food chains, food webs, and ecological pyramids
Common aquatic invertebrates of flowing and still waters
Glossary
Selected bibliography.
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9781552093306
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