The pluvial erosion process is significantly affected by tempo-spatial patterns of flood flows.
Impacts from different management policies are explored through their influence on patterns of flooding and consequent landscape change.
But trout habitat will likely be cut in half by 2080 due to warming rivers and altered patterns of flooding, according to a large study published today.
Mapping flooding patterns is critical for environmental flow management but challenging in large heterogeneous floodplains with variable patterns of flooding and complex vegetation mosaics.
Using examples from dated alluvial deposits in the Trent basin, UK, this paper suggests that the waterlogged remains of insects, mainly beetles, can be used to detect the occurrence of varying discharge and changing patterns of flood-plain evolution in low gradient alluvial landscapes of Holocene age.
This paper provides a new methodological approach to analyse secular patterns of flooding (magnitude and frequency) from sedimentary evidence (palaeofloods), taking into account changes in channel geometry, and their links to historical environmental changes and the inherent social and demographic evolution within the catchment.
With their diurnal patterns of flooding and diversity of mineral components tidal sediments should be rich environments to bioprospect for electrogenic bacteria.
However, we did find some interesting patterns of flood-induced within-population homogenization (i.e., loss of small-scale genetic structuring within the cave).
Over the past decades, the pattern of floods across all continents has been changing, becoming more frequent, intense and unpredictable for local communities, particularly as issues of development and poverty have led more people to live in areas vulnerable to flooding (Terumoto 2006).
The regular pattern of flooding and drought across the plains supports a magnificent spectrum of life such as helicopter damselflies, giant river otters, jaguars and hyacinth macaws.
