Author: Robert Sumner SigafoosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Botanical Evidence of Floods and Flood-plain Deposition
Author: Robert Sumner SigafoosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Evidence of Floods on the Potomac River from Anatomical Abnormalities in the Wood of Flood-plain Trees
Author: Thomas M. YanoskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ash (Plants)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Summary of Investigations
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Category : Geological research
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A summary of recent scientific and economic results, accompanied by a list of publications released in fiscal 1963, a list of geologic and hydrologic investigations in progress, and a report on the status of topographic mapping.
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: NASA Technical Paper
Author: Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
River Ecology and Management
Author: Robert NaimanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780387952468
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
As the vast expanses of natural forests and the great populations of salmonids are harvested to support a rapidly expanding human population, the need to understand streams as ecological systems and to manage them effectively becomes increasingly urgent. The unfortunate legacy of such natural resource exploitation is well documented. For several decades the Pacific coastal ecoregion of North America has served as a natural laboratory for scientific and managerial advancements in stream ecology, and much has been learned about how to better integrate ecological processes and characteristics with a human-dominated environment. These in sightful but hard-learned ecological and social lessons are the subject of this book. Integrating land and rivers as interactive components of ecosystems and watersheds has provided the ecological sciences with impor tant theoretical foundations. Even though scientific disciplines have begun to integrate land-based processes with streams and rivers, the institutions and processes charged with managing these systems have not done so successfully. As a result, many of the watersheds of the Pacific coastal ecoregion no longer support natural settings for environmental processes or the valuable natural resources those processes create. An important role for scientists, educators, and decision makers is to make the integration between ecology and con sumptive uses more widely understood, as well as useful for effective management.
Inland Flood Hazards
Author: Ellen E. WohlPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521624190
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This edited volume was originally published in 2000 and presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of issues related to inland flood hazards. It addresses physical controls on flooding, flood processes and effects, and responses to flooding, from the perspective of human, aquatic, and riparian communities. Individual chapter authors are recognized experts in their fields who draw on examples and case studies of inland flood hazards from around the world. This volume is unusual among treatments of flood hazards in that it addresses how the non-occurrence of floods, in association with flow regulation and other human manipulation of river systems, may create hazards for aquatic and riparian communities. This book will be a valuable resource for everyone associated with inland flood hazards: professionals in government and industry, and researchers and graduate students in civil engineering, geography, geology, hydrology, hydraulics, and ecology.
Our Living Resources
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Category : Animal populations
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Report provides information on distribution, abundance, and health of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, plants, terrestrial ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems, coastal and marine ecosystems, riparian ecosystems, the Great Plains, Interior West, Alaska, and Hawaii. It also discusses special issues: global climate change, human influences, non-native species, and habitat assessments.