freshwater assessment ecosystems chronicles

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2 reviews
Colbert E. Cushing Arthur C. Benke

Academic Press, 2005

If you love maps,rivers, river life, river facts and photos...............
.....you'll love this book. It is large in a school book fashion. I bought it for my husband who reads maps like books and loves topography/geography/geology. He really liked this tome. It centers on criteria/info on a large number of rivers and outlines the major basins with detailed descriptions of each river, life within and alteration to the flow and course. I was amazed at how many ...

River and Stream Ecosystems of the World

University of California Press, 2006

Rivers and streams around the world that once flowed wild and unchecked are rapidly disappearing into dams or being channelized between concrete banks. This valuable sourcebook, now available to a wide audience in a paperback edition, is an important comparative documentation of what is being lost: naturally flowing river and stream ecosystems. No other single volume brings together so much critical information on rivers and streams worldwide. ...

River and Stream Ecosystems
Colbert E. Cushing, Kenneth W. Cummins

Elsevier Publishing Company, 1995

Hardbound. This volume is a compilation of data from streams throughout the world using the templet of the River Continuum Concept (RCC) as a model for analysis. Various models have been offered to explain the structure and function of flowing water systems as holistic ecosystems, including the catchment basin in which they are found. The first widely used such model was the RCC, and despite the several modifications and adjustments that have ...

Streams: Their Ecology and Life

1 review
Colbert E. Cushing, J. David Allan

Academic Press, 2001

A superbly presented field guide
Collaborative written by ecologists Colbert E. Cushing (Colorado State University) and J. David Allen (University of Michigan), Streams: Their Ecology And Life is a superbly presented field guide packed with beautiful color photography, sketches, charts, graphs, and an authoritative text introducing readers of all backgrounds to the diverse, rich and fascinating splendor of streams and the chains ...

Freshwater Ecosystems and Climate Change in North America: A Regional Assessment (Advances in Hydrological ...
Colbert E. Cushing

Wiley, 1997

Freshwater Ecosystems and Climate Change in North America brings together a group of experts from the fields of geochemistry, climatology, hydrology and aquatic ecology to address the central question, What would be the impact to and response of freshwater ecosystems in your region as a result of a hypothetical doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere? These regional papers and syntheses will provide a solid foundation upon which scientists can proceed ...

The Kelly Creek Chronicles

1 review
Colbert E. Cushing

Majestic Press, 2002

Better than Canned Spaghetti
A stream ecologist takes up fly fishing here. And in this 80 page book, the author strikes out for Kelly Creek in Idaho. For the better part of 15 years "Cush" makes an annual pilgrimage to a remote stretch of creek in the Clearwater National Forest. Each year's trip varies primarily in weather and numbers of trout caught. Get this - a ten to twenty fish day is considered "slow" for these ...