The challenges that the world's running water systems now face have never been more numerous or acute at the same time, these complex habitats remain crucial to human wellbeing and future survival. If rivers can ever be anything like sustainable, a real understanding of the natural history and ecology of running waters must now be brought even more prominently into river management. The primary purpose of this textbook is to provide the up-to-date overview that students and practitioners will require to acheive this aim. -- back of book
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