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Floodplains : environmental management, restoration, and ecological implications /
A floodplain is a flat, or nearly flat, land that is adjacent to a stream or river which experiences occasional flooding (a naturally occurring process), and those who live near rivers and floodplains are especially interested in them. Historically, floodplains have been used for waste disposal, sup...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Publishers,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Environmental research advances series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FLOODPLAINS: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, RESTORATION AND ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS; FLOODPLAINS: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, RESTORATION AND ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1 MERCURY SPECIATION AND BIOAVAILABILITY IN FLOODPLAIN SOILS OF EAST FORK POPLAR CREEK, OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE, USA; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SPATIAL AND SOIL PROFILE DISTRIBUTION OF TOTAL HG; 3. CINNABAR AND NON-CINNABAR MERCURY AND MERCURY SPECIATION IN FLOODPLAIN SOILS; 4. BIOAVAILABILITY OF MERCURY IN FLOODPLAIN SOILS TO NATIVE EARTHWORMS.
- 5. EXTRACTABILITY OF MERCURY IN CINNABAR SPIKED FLOODPLAIN SOIL6. BIOAVAILABILITY OF MERCURY IN CINNABAR-SPIKED FLOODPLAIN SOIL TO PLANTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2 FLOODPLAINS OF REGULATED RIVERS: PLANT-SOIL INTERACTIONS IN CHANGING ECOSYSTEMS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; FLUVIAL DYNAMICS AND ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF NATURAL RIVERS; SUPPRESSION OF NATURAL DISTURBANCE; SUCCESSION, COMPETITION AND COMPOSITION OF PLANTS UNDER REGULATED FLOW REGIME; SEDIMENT RELEASE AND FLOODPLAIN VEGETATION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.
- Chapter 3 EARTHWORM COMMUNITIES AS INDICATORS FOR EVALUATING FLOODPLAIN RESTORATION SUCCESSABSTRACT; 1. FLOODPLAIN RESTORATION; 2. ECOLOGY OF EARTHWORM COMMUNITIES; 3. EARTHWORM COMMUNITIES IN NEAR-NATURAL FLOODPLAINS; 4. EARTHWORM COMMUNITIES IN RESTORED FLOODPLAINS; CONCLUSION: LIMITS AND PERSPECTIVES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4 THREE MAIN STAGES OF FLOODPLAIN EVOLUTION IN NORTHERN EURASIA AND THEIR ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. METHODS; 3. THE MAIN STAGES OF THE FLOODPLAIN FORMATION ON THE PLAINS OF NORTHERN EURASIA.
- 4. SPATIAL MORPHOMETRIC PATTERNS IN THE FLOODPLAIN RELIEF5. APPLIED ASPECTS OF THE STUDY OF THE MAIN STAGES IN THE FLOODPLAINS EVOLUTION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5 THE IMPORTANCE OF SPATIAL AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS TO STRUCTURING PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY IN THE FLOODPLAIN LAKES OF CUIABÁ RIVER (NORTHERN PANTANAL, BRAZIL); ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. STUDY AREA; 3. FIELD SAMPLING AND ANALYTICAL METHODS; 4. LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND PHYTOPLANKTON DIVERSITY; 5. CONTRIBUTIONS OF SPATIAL AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTALFACTORS TO PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES.
- Chapter 6 SURVEY-BASED INFLUENCE OF STORAGE AND RELEASE OF WATER FROM FLOODPLAIN LAKES ON THE MAIN RIVER IN THE SPARSE-DATA AREA OF THE LOWER AMUR, RUSSIAABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. OBJECTS AND METHODS; 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 7 HYDROGENIC HEAVY METALS POLLUTION OF ALLUVIAL SOILS IN THE CITY OF PERM (THE MIDDLE CIS-URALS REGION, RUSSIA); ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. OBJECTS AND METHODS; 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.