Floodplains : environmental management, restoration, and ecological implications / Enner Herenio Alcântara, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alcântara, Enner Herenio de.

Series:

Environmental research advances series.

Environmental research advances

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Floodplain management.

Floodplains.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, supplies, power generation, transport and food. In this book, the student or professional will find information about some floodplains around the world and their main problems, as well as some techniques used to study them. This book is divided into nine chapters, and each one aims to show some relevan

Contents:

""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 SOIL""; ""6. 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 SUCCESS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""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""

""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, RUSSIA""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""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)""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 11, 2013).

ISBN:

1-62948-032-0

OCLC:

863157958