The Nile Origin, Environments, Limnology and Human Use /

The Nile Origin, Environments, Limnology and Human Use /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dumont, Henri J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Monographiae Biologicae, 89
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9726-3
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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