Andrea Rinaldo (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Marino Gatto (Politecnico di Milano), Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe (Texas A & M University)

River Networks as Ecological Corridors (eBook, PDF)

Species, Populations, Pathogens

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

River networks are critically important ecosystems. This interdisciplinary book provides an integrated ecohydrological framework blending laboratory, field, and theoretical evidence that changes our understanding of river networks as ecological corridors. It describes how the physical structure of the river environment impacts biodiversity, species invasions, population dynamics, and the spread of waterborne disease. State-of-the-art research on the ecological roles of the structure of river networks is summarized, including important studies on the spread and control of waterborne diseases, biodiversity loss due to water resource management, and invasions by non-native species. Practical implications of this research are illustrated with numerous examples throughout. This is an invaluable go-to reference for graduate students and researchers interested in river ecology and hydrology, and the links between the two. Describing new related research on spatially-explicit modeling of the spread of waterborne disease, this book will also be of great interest to epidemiologists and public health managers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2020
• ISBN-13: 9781108804882
• Artikelnr.: 70910703

Autorenporträt

Andrea Rinaldo is Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Ecohydrology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Professor in the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering department at the University of Padua. His research focuses on water controls on biota, for which he has received international recognition including membership of the US National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is the co-author of Fractal River Basins: Chance and Self-Organization (with Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, Cambridge, 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Species
3. Populations
4. Waterborne disease
5. Afterthoughts and outlook
Appendix A. Stability of dynamical systems and bifurcation analysis
Appendix B. Optimal channel networks and geomorphological statistical mechanics
Appendix C. Computational tools for waterborne disease spread
References
Index.