List of Contributors. <p>Preface.</p> <p>1. Ecohydrology and Hydroecology: An Introduction (Paul J. Wood, David M. Hannah and Jonathan P. Sadler).</p> <p>1.1 Wider Context.</p> <p>1.2 Hydroecology and Ecohydrology: A Brief Retrospective.</p> <p>1.3 A Focus.</p> <p>1.4 This Book.</p> <p>1.5 Final Opening Remarks.</p> <p><b>PART I. PROCESSES AND RESPONSES.</b></p> <p>2. How Trees Influence the Hydrological Cycle in Forest Ecosystems (B.J. Bond, F.C. Meinzer and J.R. Brooks).</p> <p>2.1 Introduction.</p> <p>2.2 Key Processes and Concepts in Evapotranspiration – Their Historical Development and Current Status.</p> <p>2.3 Evapotranspiration in Forest Ecosystems.</p> <p>2.4 Applying Concepts: Changes in Hydrologic Processes through the Life Cycle of Forests.</p> <p>3. The Ecohydrology of Invertebrates Associated with Exposed Riverine Sediments (Jon P. Sadler and Adam J. Bates).</p> <p>3.1 Introduction.</p> <p>3.2 ERS Habitats.</p> <p>3.3 Invertebrate Conservation and ERS Habitats.</p> <p>3.4 Flow Disturbance in ERS Habitats.</p> <p>3.5 The Importance of Flow Disturbance for ERS Invertebrate Ecology.</p> <p>3.6 How Much Disturbance is Needed to Sustain ERS Diversity?</p> <p>3.7 Threats to ERS Invertebrate Biodiversity.</p> <p>4. Aquatic-Terrestrial Subsidies Along River Corridors (Achim Paetzold, John L. Sabo, Jon P. Sadler, Stuart E.G. Findlay and Klement Tockner).</p> <p>4.1 Introduction.</p> <p>4.2 What Controls Aquatic–Terrestrial Flows?</p> <p>4.3 Aquatic–Terrestrial Flows Along River Corridors.</p> <p>4.4 Infl uence of Human Impacts on Aquatic–Terrestrial Subsidies.</p> <p>4.5 Conclusions.</p> <p>4.6 Future Research.</p> <p>5. Flow-generated Disturbances and Ecological Responses; Floods and Droughts (P.S. Lake).</p> <p>5.1 Introduction.</p> <p>5.2 Defi nition of Disturbance.</p> <p>5.3 Disturbances and Responses.</p> <p>5.4 Disturbance and Refugia.</p> <p>5.5 Floods.</p> <p>5.6 Droughts.</p> <p>5.7 The Responses to Floods.</p> <p>5.8 Responses to Drought.</p> <p>5.9 Summary.</p> <p>5.10 Hydrological Disturbances and Future Challenges. </p> <p>6. Surface Water-Groundwater Exchange Processes and Fluvial Ecosystem Function: An Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Scale Dependency (Pascal Breil, Nancy B. Grimm and Philippe Vervier).</p> <p>6.1 Introduction.</p> <p>6.2 Fluvial Ecosystems: The Hydrogeomorphic Template and Ecosystem Function.</p> <p>6.3 Flow Variability and SGW Water Movements.</p> <p>6.4 Implications of Flow Variability for SGW Exchange and Fluvial Ecosystem Structure and Function.</p> <p>6.5 Conclusion.</p> <p>7. Ecohydrology and Climate Change (Wendy Gordon and Travis Huxman).</p> <p>7.1 Introduction.</p> <p>7.2 Ecohydrological Controls on Streamflow.</p> <p>7.3 Simulation Studies of Ecohydrological Effects of Climate Change.</p> <p>7.4 Experimental Studies of Ecohydrological Effects of Climate Change.</p> <p>7.5 Differing Perspectives of Hydrologists and Ecologists.</p> <p>7.6 Future Research Needs.</p> <p>7.7 Postscript.</p> <p>8. The Value of Long-term (Palaeo) Records in Hydroecology and Ecohydrology (Tony Brown).</p> <p>8.1 River–Floodplain–Lake Systems and the Limits of Monitoring.</p> <p>8.2 Key Concepts.</p> <p>8.3 Palaeoecology and Palaeohydrology: Proxies and Transfer Functions.</p> <p>8.4 Palaeoecology, Restoration and Enhancement.</p> <p>8.5 Case Study I. The River Culm in South-west England.</p> <p>8.6 Case Study II. The Changing Status of Danish Lakes. </p> <p>9. Field Methods for Monitoring Surface/Groundwater Hydrological Interactions in Aquatic Ecosystems (Andrew J. Boulton).</p> <p>9.1 Introduction.</p> <p>9.2 Research Contexts: Questions, Scales, Accuracy and Precision.</p> <p>9.3 Direct Hydrological Methods for Assessing SGW Interactions.</p> <p>9.4 Indirect Hydrological Methods for Assessing SGW Interactions.</p> <p>9.5 Future Technical Challenges and Opportunities.</p> <p>10. Examining the Influence of Flow Regime Variability and Instream Ecology (Wendy A. Monk, Paul J. Wood and David. M. Hannah).</p> <p>10.1 Introduction.</p> <p>10.2 The Requirement for Hydroecological Data.</p> <p>10.3 Bibliographic Analysis.</p> <p>10.4 Importance of Scale.</p> <p>10.5 River Flow Data: Collection and Analysis.</p> <p>10.6 Ecological Data: Collection and Analysis.</p> <p>10.7 Integration of Hydrological and Ecological Data for Hydroecolical Analysis.</p> <p>10.8 River Flow Variability and Ecological Response: Future.</p> <p>11. High Resolution Remote Sensing for Understanding Instream Habitat (Stuart N. Lane and Patrice E. Carbonneau).</p> <p>11.1 Introduction.</p> <p>11.2 Scale, the Grain of Instream Habitat and the Need for Remotely Sensed Data.</p> <p>11.3 Depth and Morphology.</p> <p>11.4 Substrate.</p> <p>11.5 Discrete Grain Identification.</p> <p>11.6 Ensemble Grain Size Parameter Determination.</p> <p>11.7 Example Application: Substrate Mapping in a Salmon River.</p> <p>11.8 Future Developments.</p> <p>12. A Mathematical and Conceptual Framework for Ecohydraulics (John M. Nestler, R. Andrew Goodwin, David L. Smith and James J. Anderson).</p> <p>12.1 Introduction.</p> <p>12.2 Ecohydraulics: Where Do the Ideas Come From?</p> <p>12.3 Reference Frameworks of Engineering and Ecology.</p> <p>12.4 Concepts for Ecohydraulics.</p> <p>12.5 Two Examples of Ecohydraulics.</p> <p>12.6 Discussion.</p> <p>12.7 Conclusions.</p> <p>13. Hydroecology: The Scientific Basis for Water Resources.Management and River Regulation (Geoffrey Petts).</p> <p>13.1 Introduction.</p> <p>13.2 A Scientifi c Basis for Water Resources Management.</p> <p>13.3 Hydroecology in Water Management.</p> <p>13.4 Applications to Water Resource Problems.</p> <p>13.5 Conclusions.</p> <p><b>PART III. CASE STUDIES.</b></p> <p>14. The Role of Floodplains in Mitigating Diffuse Nitrate Pollution (T.P. Burt, M.M. Hefting, G. Pinay and S. Sabater).</p> <p>14.1 Context.</p> <p>14.2 Nitrogen Removal by Riparian Buffers: Results of a Pan-European Experiment.</p> <p>14.3 Landscape Perspectives.<br /> <br /> 14.4 Future Perspectives.</p> <p>15. Flow-Vegetation Interactions in Restored Floodplain Environments (Rachel Horn and Keith Richards).</p> <p>15.1 The Need for Ecohydraulics.</p> <p>15.2 The Basic Hydraulics of Flow–Vegetation Interaction.</p> <p>15.3 Drag Coeffi cients and Vegetation.</p> <p>15.4 Velocity, Velocity Profi les and Vegetation Character.</p> <p>15.5 Dimensionality: Flow Velocity in Compound Channels with Vegetation.</p> <p>15.6 Some Empirical Illustrations of Flow–Vegetation Interactions.</p> <p>15.7 Conclusions.</p> <p>16. Hydrogeomorphological and Ecological Interactions in Tropical Floodplains: The Signifi cance of Confl uence Zones in the Orinoco Basin, Venezuela (J. Rosales, L. Blanco-Belmonte and C. Bradley).</p> <p>16.1 Introduction.</p> <p>16.2 Hydrogeomorphological Dynamics.</p> <p>16.3 The Riparian Ecosystem.</p> <p>16.4 Longitudinal Gradients at Confl uence Zones.</p> <p>16.5 Synthesis and Conclusions.</p> <p>17. Hydroecological Patterns of Change in Riverine Plant Communities (Birgitta M. Renöfält and Christer Nilsson).</p> <p>17.1 Introduction.</p> <p>17.2 Vegetation in Riverine Habitats.</p> <p>17.3 Hydrological–Ecological Interactions.</p> <p>17.4 Natural Patterns of Change.</p> <p>17.5 Human Impacts.</p> <p>17.6 Ways Forward.</p> <p>18. Hydroecology of Alpine Rivers (Lee E. Brown, Alexander M. Milner and David M. Hannah).</p> <p>18.1 Introduction.</p> <p>18.2 Water Sources Dynamics in Alpine River Systems.</p> <p>18.3 Physicochemical Properties of Alpine Rivers.</p> <p>18.3.4 Hydrochemistry.</p> <p>18.4 Biota of Alpine Rivers.</p> <p>18.5 Towards an Integrated Hydroecological Understanding of Alpine River Systems.</p> <p>18.6 Conclusions and Future Research Directions.</p> <p>19. Fluvial Sedimentology: Implications for Riverine Ecosystems (Gregory H. Sambrook Smith).</p> <p>19.1 Introduction.</p> <p>19.2 The Sedimentology of Barforms.</p> <p>19.3 The Evolution of Barforms.</p> <p>19.4 Discussion and Conclusion.</p> <p> 20. Physical-Ecological Interactions in a Lowland River System: Large Wood, Hydraulic Complexity and Native Fish Associations in the River Murray, Australia (Victor Hughes, Martin C. Thomas, Simon J. Nicol and John D. Koehn).</p> <p>20.1 Introduction.</p> <p>20.2 Study Area.</p> <p>20.3 Methods.</p> <p>20.4 Results.</p> <p>20.5 Discussion.</p> <p>20.6 Conclusions.</p> <p>21. The Ecological Significance of Hydraulic Retention Zones (F. Schiemer and T. Hein).</p> <p>21.1 Introduction.</p> <p>21.2 Geomorphology and Patch Dynamics Creating Retention Zones.</p> <p>21.3 Retention, Hydraulics and Physiographic Conditions.</p> <p>21.4 Habitat Conditions for Characteristic Biota.</p> <p>21.5 Retention and Water Column Processes.</p> <p>21.6 The Signifi cance of Retention Zones for the River Network.</p> <p>21.7 Implications for River Management.</p> <p>22. Conclusion (David M. Hannah, Jonathan P. Sadler and Paul J. Wood).</p> <p>22.1 Introduction.</p> <p>22.2 The Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach.</p> <p>22.3 Future Research Themes.</p> <p>Index.</p>