Freshwaters of New Zealand / edited for the New Zealand Hydrological Society and New Zealand Limnological Society by Jon Harding ... [et al.]. - 1 v. (various pagings) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / J. Morgan Williams -- Advances in freshwater sciences and management in New Zealand / Ross Woods & Clive Howard-Williams -- Atmospheric circulation and precipitation / Jim Salinger, Warren Gray, Brett Mullan & David Wratt -- Evaportation and transpiration -- David Scotter & Frances Kelliher -- Soil water, runoff and streamflow generation / Tim Davie -- Seasonal snow and water / Ian Owens & Blair Fitzharris -- Glaciers : perennial snow and ice / Trevor Chin -- Flow regimes / Maurice Duncan & Ross Woods -- Rivers and the riverscape / Paul Mosley -- Catchments, streamflow and the use of models / Richard Ibbitt, Alistair McKerchar & Ross Woods -- Floods and low flows / Charles Pearson & Roddy Henderson -- Water quality and chemistry in running waters / Rob Davies-Colley & Bob Wilcock -- Stream sediment load and organic matter / Murray Hicks, John Quinn & Noel Trustrum -- Stream communities and ecosystem processes / Mike Winterbourn -- Aquatic and riparian vegetation of rivers and stream / Paula Reeves, Kevin Collier & Alastair Suren -- Periphyton / Barry Biggs & Cathy Kilroy -- Stream invertebrates / Mike Winterbourn -- Fish communities in rivers and streams / Angus McIntosh & Robert McDowall -- River bird communities / Colin O'Donnell -- Geomorphology and hydrology of lakes / Paul Mosley -- Hydrology of wetlands / Dave Campbell & Rick Jackson -- Physical and chemical characteristics of lake water / Ian Hawes, Rob Davies-Colley & David Hamilton -- Primary production in the open water / Marc Schallenberg -- Food webs in lake / David Rowe & Marc Schallenberg -- Littoral algal and macrophyte communities / Mary de Winton & Anne-Maree Schwarz -- Littoral invertebrate and fish communities / Dave Kelly & Robert McDowall -- Bird communities of lakes and wetlands / Murray Williams -- Aquatic invaders and pest species in lakes / Gerard Closs, Tracie Dean, Paul Champion & Deborah Hofstra -- Wetland ecosystems / Brian Sorrell & Philippe Gerbeaux -- Groundwater systems / Graham Fenwick, Hugh Thorpe & Paul White -- Biota of cold-water and geothermal springs / Russell Death, Jose Barquin & Mike Scarsbrook -- Karst systems / Paul Williams -- Hyporheic zones / Greg Burrell & Mike Scarsbrook -- Impacts of forestry / Barry Fahey, Maurice Duncan & John Quinn -- Impacts of agricultural land use / Stephanie Parkyn & Bob Wilcock -- Effects of urbanisation on streams / Alastair Suren & Sandy Elliott -- Impacts of mining / Jon Harding & Ian Boothroyd -- Impacts of hydro-dams, irrigation schemes and river control works / Roger Young, Graeme Smart & Jon Harding -- River restoration / Alastair Suren, Shelley McMurtrie & Leanne O'Brien -- Lake restoration / David Rowe -- Wetland management and restoration / Brian Sorrell, Paula Reeves & Beverley Clarkson -- Sport fishery management / Neil Deans, Martin Unwin & Maurice Rodway -- Values and uses of water / Christina Robb & John Bright -- Analysis of instream values / Ian Jowett & Paul Mosley -- Management and conservation of natural waters / Chris Richmond, Victoria Froude, Andrew Fenemor & Bob Zuur -- Managing water-related risk / David Painter -- Water and human health / David Slaney & Philip Weinstein.

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Freshwater ecology--New Zealand.