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| Preface for the Second Edition | |
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| Preface for the First Edition | |
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| Introducing the Medium | |
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| Water as a fluid | |
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| The physics of fluids | |
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| Physical properties of water | |
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| How to Study a Stream | |
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| Focusing on physical habitat | |
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| The planning process | |
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| Strategic sampling | |
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| Know your limitations | |
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| Examples of how and how not to conduct a study | |
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| Potential Sources of Data | |
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| Data types | |
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| Physical data sources, format, and quality | |
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| Maps: finding those spatial places | |
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| Photographs and other remotely sensed data | |
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| Getting to Know Your Stream | |
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| General character | |
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| Catchment characteristics | |
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| Streamflow hydrographs | |
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| How does this stream measure up? | |
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| How to Have a Field Day and Still Collect Some Useful Information | |
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| Venturing into the field | |
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| Surveying: a brief introduction | |
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| Methods of measuring areal extent | |
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| Surveying streams | |
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| Measurement of water level or stage | |
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| Measurement of discharge (streamflow | |
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| Substrates and sediments: sampling and monitoring methods | |
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| Substrates and sediments: analysis of physical properties | |
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| Water quality | |
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| Water at Rest and in Motion | |
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| General | |
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| Hydrostatics: the restful nature of water | |
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| Studying the flow of fluids | |
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| Narrowing the focus: flow of a viscous fluid | |
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| The microenvironment: flow near solid surfaces | |
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| Open-channel hydraulics: the macro-environment | |
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| It's Sedimentary, Watson! | |
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| Introduction to stream channels, streambeds and transported materials | |
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| Stream-shaping processes | |
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| The ins and outs of channel topography | |
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| Sediment motion | |
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| Sediment yield from a catchment | |
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| Dissecting Data with a Statistical Scope | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Streamflow frequency analysis | |
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| Flow-duration curves | |
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| Flow-spell analysis | |
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| Extrapolating from the known to the unknown | |
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| Numerical taxonomy: multivariate analysis techniques | |
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| Basic Statistics | |
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| References | |