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Lake Gudera, a highland lake, is highly degraded by agricultural activity, but still serves the local community for irrigation and livestock watering. Preliminary investigations indicated chemical composition of NO3 (0.7 mg dm-3), turbidity (26 NTU) and conductivity (78 μs cm-1) with poor floristic and faunistic composition. The Community Elders explained that the wetland encroachment started in 1986/1987,...
The UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Lobau (Austria), established in 1977 within the city limits of Vienna, is part of the Danube National Park and one of the ecologically richest parts of the Danube River Corridor. Hardly noticed by diverging stakeholder interests the smaller aquatic habitats in the floodplain area are acutely threatened by wetland ageing and terrestrialisation processes. In 2007 an aquatic...
The implementation of the UNESCO demosite at the Guadiana estuary represents an excellent opportunity to demonstrate how to adapt, mitigate and restore functioning of estuaries and coastal areas impacted by dams and climatic changes, using the Ecohydrology approach. Worldwide estuaries are suffering similar anthropogenic impacts that affect ecosystem functioning, biodiversity and resources. Therefore,...
Ecohydrology had its origins in the Ecotone activity of the man and the Biosphere programme, but continues and expands today under the joint activity on water and Ecosystems promoted by UNESCO. The future role for Ecohydrology as an integrative discipline is clear when the emerging issues of Ecosystem management for sustainability are considered. The complementary efforts of the World Network of Biosphere...
Natural riverine ecosystems are characterized by a high level of heterogeneity manifest across a range of spatio-temporal scales. Ecotonal habitats are both the result of and contributors to the spatio-temporal dynamics of riverine ecosystems. Natural disturbances play an important rôle in maintaining a diversity of ecotonal habitats. A typology of riverine ecotones is developed that provides an expansive...
The last free stretch of the River Paraná inside of Brazilian territory, about 230 km of the former 810 km, runs in a wide floodplain, which flood regime is controlled in part by upstream dams. Aim to evaluate the impacts of different levels of hydrological control on the regional fish diversity, nutritional condition, trophic categories proportion, reproduction and young abundance monthly sampling...
Over the past centuries, rivers and streams across Europe and Northern America have increasingly been modified by damming and by other water regulation schemes. This situation is also becoming increasingly common throughout tropical regions. In the vast majority of cases, such schemes have been developed with little or no consideration to the ichthyofauna, and impacts on biodiversity and fisheries...
The Restoration Ecohydrology Concept integrates two approaches to restoration and mitigation of physically modified freshwater habitats. Firstly actions at the catchment level connected with integrated management of abiotic factors including, landscape planning, catchment management, forestation, phytotechnologies and hydrology by impoundment. Secondly actions at the level of the aquatic ecosystem...
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