The Nile Origin, Environments, Limnology and Human Use - Dumont, Henri J.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
A Description of the Nile Basin, and a Synopsis of Its History, Ecology, Biogeography, Hydrology, and Natural Resources -- The Nile: History of Scientific Research -- Origin -- Cenozoic Evolution of the Nile Basin -- Late Quaternary Environments in the Nile Basin -- Major Nilotic Environments -- The Nile Delta -- The Fayum Depression and Its Lakes -- Lake Nasser-Nubia -- The Toshka Lakes -- Lake Tana: Source of the Blue Nile -- Swamps of the Upper White Nile -- The Kyoga Catchment -- Lake Victoria -- Rwenzori Mountains (Mountains of the Moon): Headwaters of the White Nile -- Nilotic Lakes of the Western Rift -- Lake Turkana and Its Link to the Nile -- Climates and Hydrology -- Nile Basin Climates -- The Hydrology of the Nile Basin -- Limnology and Biological Diversity -- Physical and Chemical Water Characteristics -- River Nile Pollutants and Their Effect on Life Forms and Water Quality -- Bacteria and Viruses in the Nile -- Phytoplankton: Composition, Development and Productivity -- Hydrophytes of the Nile in Egypt -- Aquatic Plants of the Sudan -- The Cnidaria of the Nile Basin -- The Oligochaeta of the Nile Basin Revisited -- The Crustacean Zooplankton (Copepoda, Branchiopoda), Atyid Decapoda, and Syncarida of the Nile Basin -- Freshwater Crabs and Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Nile Basin -- The Nile Benthos -- Freshwater Molluscs of the Nile Basin, Past and Present -- Aquatic Insects of the Nile Basin, with Emphasis on the Odonata -- Fish Fauna of the Nile -- Fossil Fish from the Nile River and Its Southern Basins -- Birds of the Nile -- Human Use -- Fisheries in the Nile System -- Nile Basin Asymmetries: A Closed Fresh Water Resource, Soil Water Potential, the Political Economy and Nile Transboundary Hydropolitics -- Human Impact on the Nile Basin: Past, Present, Future -- Erratum.
Keywords: Ecology .; Life sciences; Aquatic ecology .; Conservation biology; Wildlife; Fish; Animal systematics; Animal taxonomy; Ecology; Life Sciences, general; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.