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The Middle Paraná River

Abstract

The Middle Paraná River in contrast to the upper and lower segments, is less affected by the anthropogenic action, since there are no dams in this sector and the river runs through a very little industrialized region of Argentina. Therefore, it is an interesting area upon which to apply ecological theories and explain the dynamics and functioning of a highly complex system, even in quite natural conditions. The most applied concepts in the Paraná River system are the flood pulse (Junk et al. 1989), reconsidered and widened by Neiff (1990, 1999), Tockner et al. (2000) and Junk and Wantzen (2002), the connectivity among environments (Amoros and Roux 1988; Amoros and Bornette 2002), the analysis of patterns and processes in relation to the four dimensions (Ward 1989), and the analysis at different hierarchical scales (Frissell et al. 1986). On the other hand, although stream hydraulics (Statzner and Higler 1986) and the Hyporheic Corridor Concept (Stanford and Ward 1993) are applicable, the information on these topics is still very scarce.

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de Drago, I.E., Marchese, M., Montalto, L. (2007). Benthic Invertebrates. In: Iriondo, M.H., Paggi, J.C., Parma, M.J. (eds) The Middle Paraná River. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70624-3_10

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