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A Risky Climate for Southern African Hydro [PDF]

, 2012
This in-depth study of the hydrological risks to hydropower dams on the Zambezi River gives an early warning about what Southern Africa could be facing as it contemplates plans for more large hydropower dams in a time of climate change.Currently, 13,000 ...
Richard Beilfuss
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Middle to Late Pleistocene landscape evolution and glacial dynamics in the Eastern Alps: the Gröbminger Mitterberg record, Austria

Boreas, EarlyView.
Glacial erosion during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) has removed much evidence of earlier glaciations and interglacials in the European Alps. At Gröbminger Mitterberg (GM), beneath a blanket of LGM till, a distinctive sediment archive preserves deposits predating the LGM.
Gerit E. U. Griesmeier, Daniel P. Le Heron, Christopher Lüthgens, Gustav Firla, Bernhard Salcher, Fabian Dremel, Jan‐Christoph Otto, Jürgen M. Reitner   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unravelling the Characteristics of Microhabitat Alterations in Floodplain Inundated Areas Based on High-Resolution UAV Imagery and Remote Sensing: A Case Study in Jingjiang, Yangtze River

Drones
The floodplain of a large river plays a crucial role in the river’s ecosystem and serves as an essential microhabitat for river fish to complete their life history events. Over the past four decades, the floodplain represented by the Jingjiang section in
Yichen Zheng, Dongshuo Lu, Zongrui Yang, Jianbo Chang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Droughts and human impact in the ancient Uaymil region of the Maya lowlands inferred from a 2800‐year sedimentary archive at Lake Kaná, Mexico

Boreas, EarlyView.
The relationship between the climate and societal transformation in Maya lowlands has long been debated, particularly the role of drought in shaping the civilization trajectory during the Classic Period. A high‐resolution, multi‐proxy, geochemical record from Lake Kaná, located in the underexplored Uaymil region of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico ...
Haydar B. Martinez‐Dyrzo, Priyadarsi D. Roy, Benjamin Gwinneth, Irma G. Vargas‐Martinez, Alejandro A. Aragon‐Moreno, Roger Medina‐Gonzales   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehensive framework for assessing and optimizing existing research networks

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation, monitoring, and research networks, or collections of ecological research sites unified under a common mission of data collection or a research mission, are essential infrastructure for understanding large landscapes. However, most networks developed opportunistically over decades rather than through systematic design, creating ...
Alyson East, Jitendra Kumar, William Hargrove   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental study of dynamic shear stiffness decay characteristics of interbedded soil: a case study in Yangtze River floodplain

Frontiers in Earth Science
To explore the characteristics of the dynamic shear modulus of river-phase (as opposed to estuarine) floodplain interbedded soil, undisturbed interbedded soil from the floodplain of the Yangtze River in Nanjing was subjected to strain-controlled cyclic ...
Haizhi Liu, Zhilei Huo, Danxi Chen, Ruirong Zhou, Ruirong Zhou, Qi Wu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Floodplain and river monitoring

Freshwater Metadata Journal, 2016
Januschke, Kathrin, Ledesma-Krist, Gloria, Scholz, Mathias, Gelhaus, Marion, Stammel, Barbara, Hering, Daniel   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Global overview of progress in respecting the contributions of traditional knowledge in biodiversity governance

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recognition and engagement of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IP&LCs) and other traditional knowledge (TK) holders in formal biodiversity governance remain limited, despite their significant contribution to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through their knowledge, innovations, practices, and land stewardship.
Kinga Öllerer, Pernilla Malmer, Marianna Biró, Noor Noor, Polina Shulbaeva, Maurizio Farhan Ferrari, Suneetha M. Subramanian, András Báldi, Zsolt Molnár   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic Mapping of Orofacial Traits Reveals a Single Genomic Region Associated With Differences in Multiple Parameters of Jaw Size Between Astyanax mexicanus Surface and Cavefish

Evolution &Development, EarlyView.
By performing a genetic association study in cave × surface fish F2 hybrids, we discovered that premaxilla width, dentary length, and maxillary length are all significantly associated with a region on Chromosome 13 containing 109 genes. ABSTRACT The regulation of bone size is a poorly understood and complex developmental process.
Amanda K. Powers, Alleigh Amaismeier, Kathryn Thiel, William Anyonge, Suzanne E. McGaugh, Tyler E. Boggs, Clifford J. Tabin, Joshua B. Gross   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flooding affects fluctuating asymmetry but not growth of a riparian orbweaving spider

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
In a mesocosm experiment we assessed the impact of flood on aquatic insect emergence and on spider development using geometric morphometric analysis of fluctuating asymmetry. We observed 45% higher emergence in flooded mesocosm throughout the season. Spiders did not grow bigger but exhibited ~15% lower fluctuating asymmetry than in controls.
Stephane Mutel, Martin H. Entling, Ken M. Mauser, Federica Spani, Celia Thomas, Collins Ogbeide, Mirco Bundschuh, Franziska Fiolka, Franziska Middendorf, Ralf Schulz, Alessandro Manfrin   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source