The Afrotropical Streams and Rivers: Structure, Ecological Processes and Management is a comprehensive guide that provides assessment of major rivers and tributaries in Africa. Unlike other books available, the editors present a thorough study of geomorphological, hydrological, biological, and ecological processes incorporating a range of plant and animal communities, while considering implications of human communities that depend upon them. This book, edited by a diverse cohort of researchers and/or scholars, is intended as an educational and practical guide for graduate students, researchers and scientists who focus on the biodiversity, conservation and management/policy issues of the African river systems.
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Table of Contents
1. African streams and rivers: an introductionSECTION 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
Authors
Tatenda Dalu School of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Mpumalanga, Nelspruit, South Africa. Dr Tatenda Dalu is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biology and Environmental Sciences and Leader of the Aquatic Systems Research Group at University of Mpumalanga, Honorary Research Associate at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, and a member of the Alien Species Risk Assessment Review Panel of South Africa and British Ecological Society Grants Committee. He is a United Nations Global Environment Outlook 7 Contributing Author, Associate Editor for Aquatic Invasions, African Journal of Ecology, BioInvasions Records, Ecology and Evolution and Frontiers in Water - Environmental Water Quality, and Editorial Board Member for Science of the Total Environment and Environmental Advances. He has Guest Edited for Frontiers in Water and Frontiers in Environmental Science. He is an expert in freshwater riverine, wetland and reservoir ecosystems mainly using phytoplankton, invertebrates, and fish as study organisms. He has previously co-edited two books for Elsevier on Fundamentals of Tropical Freshwater Wetlands: From Ecology to Conservation Management and Emerging Freshwater Pollutants: Analysis, Fate, and Regulation. Working with fellow research colleagues, Dr Dalu has identified and described two new species in South Africa (Copepod Lovenula raynerae) and Zimbabwe (Fairy shrimp Streptocephalus sangoensis). Frank Masese Department of Fisheries & Aquatic Science, University of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya.Dr Frank Masese is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Science at University of Eldoret, Kenya, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. He is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow and a Member of the Editorial Boards of Freshwater Biology, International Review of Hydrobiology, PLoS ONE and PeerJ. He has Guest Edited for Hydrobiologia, Frontiers in Water and Frontiers in Environmental Science. His research interests lie mainly in biodiversity assessments, ecosystem ecology and aqueous biogeochemistry, with a focus on riverine ecosystems. His studies straddle the terrestrial-aquatic domain, where he seeks to understand how landscape variables and human activities shape aquatic ecosystem structure and functioning. Working with fellow researchers, Dr Masese is in the final stages of developing a biological criterion for monitoring surface waters in Kenya.
