Afrotropical Streams and Rivers

1. African streams and rivers: an introduction

SECTION I: MAJOR RIVER SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED TRIBUTARIES
2. Major African river systems and their associated tributaries: An overview
3. Rivers of Southern Africa
4. Rivers of East Africa
5. Rivers of the Congo River Basin in Central Africa
6. Rivers of West Africa
7. Rivers of North Africa

SECTION II: PHYSICAL STRUCTURE AND ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES
8. Erosion and Accretion - Landscape Sculpting by Water
9. African River Hydrology
10. Physico-chemical environment
11. River riparian zones in sub-Saharan Africa: Processes, functions, and sustainability
12. Organic matter and nutrient dynamics
13. Primary production and ecosystem metabolism
14. Terrestrial-aquatic connectivity

SECTION III: BIOTA
15. Microbial and phytoplankton dynamics in freshwater rivers
16. Macrophytes
17. Macroinvertebrates
18. Fishes of Southern Africa
19. Birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians
20. Food web dynamics

SECTION IV: MANAGEMENT, CONSERVATION AND THREATS
21. River management and governance
22. Rivers and people
23. Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change
24. Restoring freshwater ecosystems: lessons from case studies on riparian vegetation, aquatic weeds and freshwater fish
25. Anthropogenic threats
26. Woody plants encroachment and impacts on streamflow recharge in arid and semi-arid environments
27. Advances in Biomonitoring in Africa
28. Environmental flows
29. Overview and future prospects of African rivers research

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• Ecologia aplicada
• Limnologia (água doce)
• Geografia física e topografia

Rivers; Macroinvertebrates; Fish; Geomorphology; Environmental Flows; Biomonitoring; freshwater; Africa; Conservation; Biodiversity; Afrotropic