The Interactions Between Sediments and Water

ISBN-13: 9781402054778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 319 str.

Brian Kronvang; Jadran Faganeli; Nives Ogrinc

Opis

This book focuses on sediments as a pollutant in natural freshwater and marine habitats, and as a vector for the transfer of chemicals such as nutrients and contaminants. Sediment-water research is carried out all over the world within a variety of disciplines. The selected papers cover three main topics:
-assessment and/or restoration of disturbed watersheds
-sediment-water linkages in terrestrial and aquatic environments
-evaluation of sediment and ecological changes in marine and freshwater habitats. Innovative research in both developed and less developed countries is included and both fundamental research and insight into applied research and system management are covered. This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, catchment managers and government regulators working within many areas of education, protection and management of the environment, including sediment geochemistry and dynamics, aquatic habitats, water quality, aquatic ecology, river morphology, restoration techniques and catchment management.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Section 1: Sediment and Water Interactions in Streams: Phosphorus storage in fine channel bed sediments.- Quantification of the erosion resistance of undisturbed and remoulded cohesive sediments.- Spatial and temporal variations in the sediment habitat of Ranunculus spp. in lowland chalk streams – implications for ecological status?.- Can nutrient spiralling be used to detect seasonal nutrient uptake in a forested stream?.- Dissolved oxygen and nutrient fluxes across the sediment-water interface of the Neckar River, Germany: in situ measurements and simulations.- Occurrence of sediment-bound pyrethroids in Danish streams and their impact on ecosystem function.- Development of layered sediment structure and its effects on pore water transport and hyporheic exchange.- Streambed sediment geochemical controls on in-stream phosphorus concentrations during baseflow.- Section 2: Sediment and Water Interactions in Lakes: An overview of sediment organic matter records of human eutrophication in the Laurentian Great Lakes region.- The influence of Chironomus plumosus larvae on nutrient fluxes and phosphorus fractions in aluminium treated lake sediment.- Study of pollution of the Plitvice Lakes by water and sediment analyses.- Modelling phosphorus retention in lakes and reservoirs.- Relationship between the sediment geochemistry and phosphorus fluxes in a Great Lakes coastal marsh, Cootes Paradise, ON, Canada.- Recent sediment of Lake Bled (NW Slovenia): Sedimentological and geochemical properties.- The impact of lake-level fluctuations on the sediment composition.- Section 3: Sediment and Water Interactions in Coastal Waters and Estuaries: Microbially mediated redox cycling at the oxic-anoxic boundary in sediments: Comparisons of animal and plants habitats.- Distribution of redox-sensitive elements in bottom, waters, porewaters and sediments of Rogoznica lake (Croatia) in both oxic and anoxic conditions.- Transformationof particle-bound phosphorus at the land-sea interface in a Danish estuary.- Use of an In-Situ erosion flume for measuring stability of sediment deposits in Hamilton Harbour, Canada.- Biochemical cooperation between Klebsiella oxytoca Sc and Methylobacterium mesophilium Sr for complete degradation of Dimethyl Isophthalate.- Benthic infaunal composition and distribution at an intertidal wetland mudflat.- Effect of sediment humic substances on sorption of selected endoctrine disruptors.- Sources, fate and distribution of organic matter on the western Adriatic continental shelf, Italy.- Sedimentary record of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea).- Section 4: Linking Catchments and Streams: Quantifying fine-sediment sources in primary and selectively logged rainforest catchments using geochemical tracers.- Risks from historical contaminated sediments in the Rhine basin.- Changes in sediment sources following wildfire in mountainous terrain: a paired-catchment approach, British Columbia, Canada.- Wildfire effects on the quantity and composition of suspended and gravel-stored sediments.-Using fallout lead-210 measurements to estimate soil erosion in three small catchments in Southern Italy.- Sediment-water interactions in an eroded and heavy metal contaminated peatland catchment, southern Pennines, UK.- The effect of sediment source changes on pollen records in lake sediments.

Blurb

This book focuses on sediments as a pollutant in natural freshwater and marine habitats, and as a vector for the transfer of chemicals such as nutrients and contaminants. Sediment-water research is carried out all over the world within a variety of disciplines. The selected papers cover three main topics:

-assessment and/or restoration of disturbed watersheds

-sediment-water linkages in terrestrial and aquatic environments

-evaluation of sediment and ecological changes in marine and freshwater habitats

Innovative research in both developed and less developed countries is included and both fundamental research and insight into applied research and system management are covered.

This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, catchment managers and government regulators working within many areas of education, protection and management of the environment, including sediment geochemistry and dynamics, aquatic habitats, water quality, aquatic ecology, river morphology, restoration techniques and catchment management.

 

Reprinted from Water, Air, & Soil Pollution: Focus, Volume 6, Issues 5-6, 2006