Afrotropical Streams and Rivers
Structure, Ecological Processes and Management
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2024
- Authors: Tatenda Dalu, Frank Masese
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 8 9 8 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 8 9 7 - 0
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Request a sales quoteAfrotropical Streams and Rivers: Structure, Ecological Processes and Management is a comprehensive guide that provides assessment of major rivers and tributaries in Sub–Saharan Africa. Unlike other books available, the editors present a thorough study of geomorphological, hydrological, biological, and ecological processes, incorporating a range of plant and animal communities while considering the implications of human communities that depend upon them. This book, edited by a diverse cohort of researchers, is intended as an educational and practical guide for graduate students, researchers, and scientists who focus on the biodiversity, conservation, and policy issues of the African river systems.
- Provides a comprehensive introduction to tropical freshwater rivers, their biota, and abiotic processes
- Contains unique case studies on African tropical streams and rivers
- Organized around an interdisciplinary approach that covers the complex aspects of conservation and management of tropical river systems on the continent
Graduate students, scientists and researchers working in the fields of ecology and limnology
Land use planners and water source managers, as well as NGO officials
Land use planners and water source managers, as well as NGO officials
1. General Introduction
SECTION 1: MAJOR RIVER SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED TRIBUTARIES
2. Rivers of Southern Africa
3. Rivers of East Africa
4. Rivers of Central Africa
5. Rivers of West Africa
6. Rivers of North Africa
SECTION 2: PHYSICAL STRUCTURE AND ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES
7. Geomorphology
8. Hydrology
9. Physico-chemical environment
10. Riparian zone and communities
11. Organic matter and nutrient dynamics
12. Primary production and ecosystem metabolism
13. Terrestrial-aquatic connectivity
SECTION 3: BIOTA
14. Bacteria, Viruses, Phytoplankton and Other Microbes
15. Macrophytes
16. Macroinvertebrates
17. Fishes
18. Reptiles, birds, and mammals
19. Food web dynamics
SECTION 4: MANAGEMENT, CONSERVATION AND THREATS
20. Management, restoration, and governance
21. Integrated water resources management for river basins
22. Rivers and people
23. Biodiversity conservation and climate change
24. Anthropogenic threats
25. Advances in Biomonitoring in Africa
26. Environmental flows
27. Overview and future prospects
SECTION 1: MAJOR RIVER SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED TRIBUTARIES
2. Rivers of Southern Africa
3. Rivers of East Africa
4. Rivers of Central Africa
5. Rivers of West Africa
6. Rivers of North Africa
SECTION 2: PHYSICAL STRUCTURE AND ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES
7. Geomorphology
8. Hydrology
9. Physico-chemical environment
10. Riparian zone and communities
11. Organic matter and nutrient dynamics
12. Primary production and ecosystem metabolism
13. Terrestrial-aquatic connectivity
SECTION 3: BIOTA
14. Bacteria, Viruses, Phytoplankton and Other Microbes
15. Macrophytes
16. Macroinvertebrates
17. Fishes
18. Reptiles, birds, and mammals
19. Food web dynamics
SECTION 4: MANAGEMENT, CONSERVATION AND THREATS
20. Management, restoration, and governance
21. Integrated water resources management for river basins
22. Rivers and people
23. Biodiversity conservation and climate change
24. Anthropogenic threats
25. Advances in Biomonitoring in Africa
26. Environmental flows
27. Overview and future prospects
- No. of pages: 840
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443238987
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Tatenda Dalu
Dr Tatenda Dalu is a Lecturer in the School of Biology and Environmental Sciences at University of Mpumalanga and Research Associate at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. He is a TWAS Young Affiliate, Iso Lomso and South Africa Young Academy of Science Fellow and also an Associate Editor for Aquatic Invasions, BioInvasions Records and Frontiers in Water – Environmental Water Quality, Ecology and Evolution, and Editorial Board Member for Environmental Advances. He is interested in the emerging freshwater pollutants, limnology, trophic ecology and plankton dynamics of wetlands, reservoirs and rivers/estuaries. He also has a strong interest in invasion ecology, biodiversity and conservation.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Mpumalanga, Nelspruit, South Africa; South African Institute for Biodiversity, Makhanda, South AfricaFM
Frank Masese
Dr Frank Masese is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, University of Eldoret, Kenya. His research interests lie mainly in biodiversity assessments (macroinvertebrates and fishes), ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry, with a focus on riverine ecosystems. His studies straddle the terrestrial-aquatic domain where he seeks to understand how landscape variables shape aquatic ecosystem structure and functioning. The topics that Dr Masese studies include organic matter processing, nutrient cycling, community composition, biomonitoring, and energy/carbon sources and flow in food webs, which are dominated by his favourite invertebrates but made complete by algae and fishes. Dr Masese is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow and a Member of Editorial Boards of Freshwater Biology, PLOS ONE and PeerJ. He has also Guest Edited Special Issues/ Topics for Water, Hydrobiologia, Frontiers in Water and Frontiers in Environmental Science. Dr Masese is currently involved in several ecology, biodiversity conservation and water resources management projects in Kenya and East Africa and has published >70 scientific publications and >10 un/published reports to date. Working with fellow researchers, Dr Masese is in the final stages of developing a biological criterion for monitoring surface waters in Kenya.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, University of Eldoret, Kenya, South Africa