Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters is designed to serve as a textbook for
advanced undergraduate and graduate students and as a reference source for specialists in
stream ecology and related fields. This Third Edition is thoroughly updated and expanded to
incorporate significant advances in our understanding of environmental factors biological
interactions and ecosystem processes and how these vary with hydrological geomorphological
and landscape setting. The broad diversity of running waters - from torrential mountain brooks
to large lowland rivers to great river systems whose basins occupy sub-continents - makes
river ecosystems appear overwhelming complex. A central theme of this book is that although the
settings are often unique the processes at work in running waters are general and increasingly
well understood. Even as our scientific understanding of stream ecosystems rapidly advances
the pressures arising from diverse human activities continue to threaten the health of rivers
worldwide. This book presents vital new findings concerning human impacts and the advances in
pollution control flow management restoration and conservation planning that point to
practical solutions. Reviews of the first edition: .. an unusually lucid and judicious
reassessment of the state of stream ecology Science Magazine ..provides an excellent
introduction to the area for advanced undergraduates and graduate students... Limnology &
Oceanography ... a valuable reference for all those interested in the ecology of running
waters. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society Reviews of the second edition: Overall
a must for the field centre and a good starter text in stream ecology. (TEN News October
2007) Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. (P. R. Pinet CHOICE
Vol. 45 (7) 2008) ... a very good fluidly readable book which contains the latest key
scientific knowledge of the ecology of running waters. (Daniel Graeber International Review of
Hydrobiology Vol. 94 (2) 2009)
