Floodplain lakes: Evolution and response

Title: Floodplain lakes: Evolution and response
Creator: Hausmann, Sonja; Hall, Roland; Gell, Peter
Date: 2011
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/59042
Identifier: vital:4095
Identifier: https://doi.org/doi:10.1029/2011EO180009
Identifier: ISSN:0096-3941
Abstract: PAGES International Floodplain Lakes Workshop; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 16-19 September 2010; Human alteration of the major rivers and floodplains of the world is a global concern because they sustain aquatic ecosystems and supply food and energy to society. When in flood stage, the influence of a river extends across the floodplain and can revitalize productive wetlands. The condition of many rivers has declined worldwide, but the degree of degradation is hard to assess due to natural variability of flow and uncertainty of baseline status. Evidence of changes over decades to millennia in river and wetland conditions, however, can be quantified from physical, chemical, and biological information archived in the accumulated sediments of floodplain lakes.
Relation: Eos Vol. 92, no. 18 (2011), p. 154
Rights: Copyright Elsevier
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Anthropogenic effect; Aquatic ecosystem; Conference proceeding; Degradation; Floodplain; Lake; River; Wetland; Arkansas; Fayetteville; United States
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