Overview
- Features a multidisciplinary account of the longest river of the world: the Nile
- Discusses the geological history, hydrology, climate, the biota of the basin, the effects of human interventions and the value of water as a natural resource
- This book is a new edition to the 1976 The Nile monograph by Rzo’ska
Part of the book series: Monographiae Biologicae (MOBI, volume 89)
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Major Nilotic Environments
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Climates and Hydrology
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Limnology and Biological Diversity
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Nile
Book Subtitle: Origin, Environments, Limnology and Human Use
Editors: Henri J. Dumont
Series Title: Monographiae Biologicae
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9726-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9725-6Published: 15 May 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7720-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9726-3Published: 06 May 2009
Series ISSN: 0077-0639
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1729
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 819
Topics: Ecology, Life Sciences, general, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography