It considers a range of organisms (plants, invertebrates and fish), provides a long-term perspective on contemporary and palaeo-systems, and emphasises wider research implications with respect to environmental and water resource management.

This relatively new discipline, which combines elements of hydrology and ecology, also considers physical geography, earth science, environmental science and management, civil engineering, water resource management, zoology, and botany. This diversity is reflected in the 22 articles collected here, covering process and responses such as the role of trees in the hydrological cycle in forest ecosystems, the ecohydrology of invertebrates in sediments, aquatic-terrestrial subsidies along rivers, floods and droughts and their flow-generated disturbances and ecological responses, surface and ground water exchange processes, climate change, long-term records, field methods for monitoring surface and ground water, examination of flow regime variables, high resolution remote sensing for in-stream habitats, a mathematical and conceptual framework for ecohydraulics, hydroecology as the scientific basis for water resource management, and case studies on flood plains, rivers, river ecosystems, lowland rivers, hydraulic retention zones. The collection closes with ideas for future research. Annotation 2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)