Ecohydrology of surface and groundwater dependant systems :
Concepts, methods and recent developments

IAHS Publ. 328 (2009) ISBN 978-1-907161-00-1, 240 + viii pp, Price £ 51.00

This volume is an outcome of the symposium of the same name organized by the IAHS international commissions on Continental Erosion (ICCE), on Groundwater (ICGW), and on Surface Water (ICSW) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) in Hyderabad, India, September 2009. The articles in this volume provide an exciting contribution to the field of Ecohydrology. As a collection they represent an expansion of this emerging field of science, from its initial focus on the relationships between water and vegetation in different landscape settings, to one that considers the:

• Ecohydrology of riverine landscapes,
• Ecohydrology and groundwater systems and
• Ecohydrology and catchment land-use issues.

Contents

• Martin Thoms, Kate Heal, Eva Bøgh, Antonio Chambel & Vladimir Smakhtin
  Preface, v-vi

 
1. Ecohydrology of Riverine Landscapes
    
   • Scott C. Rayburg & Martin Thoms
     The wetting and drying regime of a terminal flood plain–wetland system: implications for waterbird habitat, 3-12
   • Krystian Tadeusz Obolewski, Katarzyna Glińska–Lewczuk & Szymon Kobus
     The effect of flow on the macrozoobenthos structure in a re-opened oxbow lake: a case study of the Słupia River, northern Poland, 13-23
   • Jens Kiesel, Daniel Hering, Britta Schmalz & Nicola Fohrer
     A transdisciplinary approach for modelling macroinvertebrate habitats in lowland streams, 24-33
   • Eva Boegh, Martin Olsen, John Conallin & Esbern Holmes
     Modelling the spatial variations of stream temperature and its impacts on habitat suitability in small lowland streams, 34-41
   • Rajendra L. Shilpakar & Martin Thoms
     The character and behaviour of flood plain vegetation landscapes, 42-52
   • Neil S. Entwistle, David J. Milan & George L. Heritage
     An assessment of temporal habitat availability in a gravel-bed river using a Lidar-derived CFD model, 53-61
   • Michael A. Reid & Martin C. Thoms
     Mapping stream surface flow types by balloon: an inexpensive high resolution remote sensing solution to rapid assessment of stream habitat heterogeneity ? 62-67
   • George L. Heritage, David J. Milan & Neil S. Entwistle
     An investigation of the role of geomorphology in influencing biotope distribution, 68-76
   • R. I. Meza & H. X. Vargas
     Fuzzy logic-based expert system for native fish habitat assessment in a scarcity information context, 77-85
   • Neil Saintilan, Joanne Ling & Li Wen
     The development of interdisciplinary flow-ecology models for the wetlands of the northern Murray-Darling Basin, 86-93
   • J. Schmidt, S. T. Larned, D. Arscott & J. C. Diettrich
     Hydrological indices for quantifying ecologically relevant flow conditions in intermittent alluvial plain rivers, 94-102
   • Mark Southwell, Martin Thoms & Craig Boys
     The potential effect of re-snagging on hydraulic habitat, 103-111
   • Ying Zhang, Ling Liu, Jianzhong Wang, Juan Chen & Chengpeng Lu
     An index of river health for river plain network regions, 112-121
   • Qiongfang Li, Tao Cai, Hongjie Wang, Yunhong Xue, Linlong Bai, Peng Li & Bin You
     Computation methods of minimum and optimal instream ecological flow for the upper Huaihe River, China, 122-126
   • Celeste Harris, Martin Thoms & Murray Scown
     The ecohydrology of stream networks, 127-136
   
    
2. Ecohydrology and Groundwater Systems
    
   • Katarzyna Glińska-Lewczuk, Szymon Kobus, Krystian Obolewski & Jarosław Chormański
     The effect of groundwater supply on the hydrochemical diversity of flood plain lakes in the temperate climatic zone, 139-150
   • Anna Kuczyńska, Paul Johnston & Bruce Misstear
     Groundwater–surface water interactions at a fen margin: hydrological controls on the micro-habitat of an indicator snail species Vertigo geyeri, 151-160
   • Deborah L. Hathaway, Nabil Shafike & Karen MacClune
     Enhanced groundwater modelling methods for analyses in ecohydrology, 161-169
   • Xi Chen, Zhicai Zhang, Pen Shi & Xuanwu Xue
     Estimation of hydrological dynamics and ecohydrological effects in the Karst region of southwest China, 170-180
   • Yonghua Zhu, Liliang Ren, Qicheng Zhang, Haishen Lü, Zhongbo Yu, Yanqing Wu & Huali Feng
     The contribution of groundwater to soil moisture in Populus euphratica root zone layer, 181-188
   
    
3. Ecohydrology and Catchment and Land-use Issues
    
   • Patrick Laux, Greta Jäckel, Munang Tingem & Harald Kunstmann
     Onset of the rainy season and crop yield in sub-Saharan Africa – tools and perspectives for Cameroon, 191-200
   • X. F. Chen, L. L. Ren & B. H. Guan
     Comparative study of the treatment of eutrophic water of different submerged plants with different planting densities, 201-207
   • Haishen Lü, Yonghua Zhu, Zhongbo Yu & Long Xiang
     The effect of gravel-sand mulch on soil moisture in the semi-arid loess region, 208-215
   • Fei Yuan, Liliang Ren, Qinghua Luan & Zhongbo Yu
     Simulating the evolution of potential natural vegetation due to long-term climate change and its effect on the water balance of the Hanjiang River basin, China, 216-222
   • R. Gopakumar & K. Takara
     Water balance and mean water residence time of the Vembanad Wetland of Kerala State, India, 223-232
   
    

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