Methods in Stream Ecology

F. Richard (Ric) Hauer, is Director of the University of Montana’s Center for Integrated Research on the Environment (CIRE) and Professor of Stream Ecology at the Flathead Lake Biological Station where he taught Stream Ecology for >25 years. His major research interests encompass the broad, interdisciplinary field of ecosystem ecology with focus on freshwaters, especially running waters and gravel-bed river floodplains and wetlands. The breadth of his research spans from physical processes of sediment transport and groundwater/surface water interactions to aquatic insect life histories and ecosystem assessment. He is particularly interested in the application of remotely sensed data to understanding biophysical processes of floodplain ecology. To this end, he pilots his own airplane in the acquisition of digital imagery used to evaluate the landscape scale linkages between hydrology, geomorphology and ecology in river and floodplain ecosystems. Dr. Hauer has conducted his research around the eastern Pacific-rim from Alaska to Patagonia; his primary research site being the transboundary Crown-of-the-Continent Ecosystem and the Flathead River of Montana and British Columbia. While it was the fascination with aquatic invertebrates, especially caddisflies, that captured his interest, it has been his love for streams and rivers as disproportionately important components of biodiversity of mountain landscapes that has maintained that passion. Dr. Hauer has published >100 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as Science, Science Advances, BioScience and Freshwater Science. In addition to his personal research, he has served at the national level in developing environmental policy and implementation of environmental assessment in the Clean Water Act working with both the US Army Corps of Engineers and the US EPA. Ric is past-President of the international scientific society “Society for Freshwater Science.” At the University of Montana, Hauer held the Stream Ecology Endowed Chair at Flathead Lake Biological Station from 2000-2016 and received the university’s Distinguished Scholar Award in 2011. He is founding director of the university’s interdisciplinary sciences graduate program, Systems Ecology. Dr. Gary A. Lamberti is Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Stream and Wetland Ecology Laboratory (SWEL) at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches Biostatistics, Stream Ecology, Restoration Ecology, and a variety of topical graduate courses. His major research interests include (1) food web ecology of streams and wetlands, ranging from microbes to fish; (2) the ecology of native and introduced Pacific salmon; and (3) the impacts of climate change, toxins, and invasive species on aquatic ecosystem function. He retains a fundamental love for aquatic invertebrates, which permeates all of his research. He has also successfully advised 27 M.S. and Ph.D. students to completion and countless undergraduates have conducted research in his laboratory. Dr. Lamberti has over 175 publications dealing with various aspects of aquatic ecology, and has co-edited the Elsevier book entitled Methods in Stream Ecology, now in its 3rd edition. At Notre Dame, he also directs the GLOBES Graduate Certificate Program in Environment and Society. Dr. Lamberti is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and past-President of the Society for Freshwater Science, an international society of aquatic ecologists.

• Section A: Physical Processes1. Landscapes And Catchment Basins2. Valley Segments, Stream Reaches, And Channel Units3. Discharge Measurements And Streamflow Analysis4. Dynamics Of Flow5. Temperature, Light, And Oxygen 6. Hyporheic ZonesSection B: Material Storage And Transport7. Fluvial Geomorphic Processes8. Solute Dynamics9. Phosphorus Limitation, Uptake, And Turnover In Stream Algae10. Nitrogen Dynamics11. Dissolved Organic Carbon12. Transport And Storage Of Fpom13. Cpom And Large WoodSection C: Stream Biota14. Heterotrophic Mirobes15. Fungi: Biomass, Production And Sporulation Of Aquatic Hyphomycetes16. Benthic Algae: Distribution And Structure17. Biomass And Pigments Of Benthic Algae18. Macrophytes And Bryophytes19. Meiofauna20. Macroinvertebrates21. Macroinvertebrate Movements: Drift, Colonization, And Emergence22. Fish Community CompositionSection D: Community Interactions23. Plant - Herbivore Interactions24. Predator-Prey Interactions25. Trophic Relations Of Macroinvertebrates26. Trophic Relations Of Stream Fishes27. Stream Food WebsSection E: Ecosystem Processes28. Primary Productivity And Community Respiration29. Secondary Production Of Macroinvertebrates30. Decomposition In Stream Ecosystems31. Riparian Processes And Interactions32. Effects Of Nutrient Enrichment On Periphyton 33. Surface-Subsurface Interactions In StreamsSection F: Ecosystem Quality34. Algae As Biotic Indicators Of Environmental Quality35. Macroinvertebrates As Biotic Indicators Of Environmental Quality36. Pollution And Toxicological Assessment

"This book is packed with the latest and best ‘how to’ information for field and laboratory work in streams. The new edition has expanded content, a larger format, and much better graphics...The greatest content change is the addition of a 6th section entitled Ecosystem Quality. Section 6 is anchored by a substantially rewritten chapter on ‘Macroinvertebrates as Biotic Indicators of Environmental Quality’...I like the way in which doable, detailed, stepwise exercises, including the math, are provided in a format appealing to students interested in conducting stream studies...I think that even an advanced high school student with access to this book should be able design an independent study project in stream ecology. I would really like to see it in high school libraries, as well as on college and university campuses. The greatest strength of this book is that it is written by leading authorities in stream ecology. The structure is better organized and more informative than the previous edition. The format is conducive to teaching and learning. I grade this book an 'A'. --Ben Stout, Wheeling Jesuit University, West Virginia, USA