Ecological Significance of River Ecosystems

Challenges and Management Strategies

Sughosh Madhav, Shyam Kanhaiya, Arun Lal Srivastav, Virendra Bahadur Singh, Pardeep Singh

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780323850452
• eBook ISBN: 9780323903431
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Ecological Significance of Riparian Ecosystems: Challenges and Management Strategies examines the current issues related to river ecosystems, their environmental importance, pollution issues and potential management strategies. The book is divided into 4 key themes: Basics of river ecosystem, Natural phenomenon of river ecosystem, Human-induced problems of river ecosystem, and Management measures for the river ecosystem. Through these four themes, the contributors present both practical and theoretical aspects of river ecosystem in changing climate. An emphasis has been made on the recent research of climate change and its impact on the river ecosystem. River ecosystems have tremendous potential to store CO2, however, with changing climatic and anthropogenic activities, these habitats are under threat, and river ecosystems are losing the very vital service of storing carbon. Unlike well documented terrestrial biodiversity, the biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems is still unrecognized to some extent. - Presents an understanding of the biogeochemical processes of river ecosystems achieved by food webs and diverse biogeochemical processes - Covers sediment dynamics and nutrient chemistry - hot topics in river ecosystems - Includes environmental pollution issues in river ecosystems from various anthropogenic activities

Table of contents

• Ecological Significance of River Ecosystems
• Cover
• Front Matter
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Chapter 1 An overview of human health risk from opium alkaloids and related pharmaceutical products pollution in aquatic ecosystems
• Chapter2 Impact of pharmaceuticals and antibiotics waste on the river ecosystem: a growing threat
• Chapter 3 Heavy metal contamination in the river ecosystem
• Chapter 4 Factors influencing the alteration of microbial and heavy metal characteristics of river systems in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
• Chapter 5 Impact of climate change on the river ecosystem
• Chapter 6 Geospatial technology for sustainable management of water resources
• Chapter 7 Chemical and isotopic variability of Bhagirathi river water (Upper Ganga), Uttarakhand, India
• Chapter 8 Occurrence and distribution of perfluoroalkyl acids in rivers: Impact and risk assessment
• Chapter 9 Socio-economic perspective of river health: A case study of river Ami, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Chapter 10 Sources of ions in the river ecosystem
• Chapter 11 Nutrients contamination and eutrophication in the river ecosystem
• Chapter 12 Current status of available techniques for removal of heavy metal contamination in the river ecosystem
• Chapter 13 Riverine biodiversity and importance: Potential threat and conservational challenges
• Chapter14 Alteration of freshwater ecosystems and its assessment: In the light of nematode community structure
• Chapter 15 Human-induced stresses on the rivers beyond their assimilation and regeneration capacity
• Chapter 16 Impact of anthropogenic stresses on riparian ecosystem and their management perspectives
• Chapter17 Territorial long-term forecasting of hydrological characteristics of spring floods of lowland rivers
• Chapter 18 Engineer substantiation of estimated characteristics of maximum rivers runoff during floods under climate change
• Chapter 19 Palaeoclimatic imprint on fluvial sediments: examples from Indian Phanerozoic successions
• Chapter 20 Sustainability Assessment of Jumar River in Ranchi District of Jharkhand using River Sustainability Bayesian Network (RSBN) model Approach
• Chapter 21 Prospects of microbes in mitigations of environmental degradation in the river ecosystem
• Chapter 22 Sustainable fisheries/aquaculture of hilsa, Tenualosa ilisha in changing and dynamic riverine ecosystem of India and its neighborhood
• Chapter 23 Water quality status in Bagmati river of Kathmandu valley, Nepal
• Index