Field guide to rivers & streams Discovering running waters and aquatic life
Book - 2022
"A scientific guide to rivers, streams, and the animals that reside within them, written accessibly for a general audience. Topics range from what causes river flows to rise and fall to the ecology of riverine fishes"--
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Essex, Connecticut :
FalconGuides
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- v, 296 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296).
- ISBN
- 9781493060382
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Watersheds
- Chapter 2. Hydrology
- Chapter 3. Channel Geomorphology
- Chapter 4. Ecology of Lotic Ecosystems
- Chapter 5. A Primer on Identifying Organisms
- Chapter 6. Insects
- Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)
- Ephemeroptera (mayflies)
- Plecoptera (stoneflies)
- Hemiptera (true bugs)
- Megaloptera (alderflies, dobsonflies, and fishflies)
- Trichoptera (caddisflies)
- Coleoptera (beetles)
- Diptera (flies)
- Chapter 7. Crustaceans
- Amphipoda (amphipods)
- Isopoda (isopods)
- Decapoda (crayfishes)
- Chapter 8. Bivalve Mollusks
- Native Mussels
- Sphaeriidae (fingernail clams)
- Dreissena polymorpha (the zebra mussel)
- Corbicula fluminea (the Asian clam)
- Chapter 9. Fishes
- Petromyzontidae (lampreys)
- Acipenseridae (sturgeons)
- Amiidae (bowfin)
- Polyodontidae (paddlefishes)
- Anguillidae (eels)
- Lepisosteidae (gars)
- Ictaluridae (catfishes)
- Percopsidae (trout-perches)
- Clupeidae (herrings)
- Esocidae (pikes)
- Umbridae (mudminnows)
- Salmonidae (trout and salmon)
- Aphredoderidae (pirate perch)
- Gasterosteidae (sticklebacks)
- Poeciliidae (livebearers)
- Fundulidae (killifish)
- Catostomidae (suckers)
- Cyprinidae (minnows and carps)
- Atherinopsidae (silversides)
- Cottidae (sculpins)
- Sciaenidae (drums)
- Percidae (perches and darters)
- Moronidae (striped basses)
- Centrarchidae (sunfishes)
- References
- About the Author