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Sergey A. Mosharov, Elena I. Druzhkova, Andrey F. Sazhin, Pavel V. Khlebopashev, Anastasia N. Drozdova, Nikolay A. Belyaev and Andrey I. Azovsky
Knowledge of the features of the structure and productivity of the Arctic communities of marine planktonic algae is necessary to identify possible changes in the pelagic ecosystem functioning under the changing climate condition of the Kara Sea. This stu...
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Daniele Pedretti, Inés Roig Palomeque and Stefan Meier
Mediterranean islands suffer from a lack of freshwater due to persistent and recursive droughts, limited groundwater availability and mass tourism. In Ibiza (Spain), private estates disconnected from the water distribution network consume about 21% of th...
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Yidi Yang, Jianrong Zhu, Zhengbing Chen and Rui Ma
Estuarine projects can quickly change the estuarine topography and influence the hydrodynamics and saltwater intrusion. The Changjiang Estuary is a multiple-bifurcation megaestuary, and the outstanding feature of the saltwater intrusion is the saltwater ...
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Gordon Gilja, Neven Kuspilic, Martina Lacko and Davor Romic
Rainfed agriculture is dependent on rainfall and runoff patterns, especially in lowland areas that rely on pumping operation to remove excess water from the drainage network. Polder areas are extremely vulnerable to saltwater intrusion and subsequent soi...
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Kai Zhang, Dongli Li, Xuejun He, Changyuan Xie and Haibo He
Sedimentary organic matter is an important component of the metabolism of a lake?s ecosystem, and it is generally derived from both the watershed and the primary productivity of a lake. Understanding the sources of organic matter in lakes and lake trophi...
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Hui Shen, Ye Zhu, Zhiguo He, Li Li and Yingzhong Lou
Freshwater plume at the Changjiang River (CR) mouth are essential to the coastal water quality and ecosystem because they can cause estuary stratification and hypoxia, potentially deteriorating the water environment. Furthermore, the advection heat trans...
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Mohsin Abbas, Linshuang Zhao and Yanning Wang
This study summarizes reviews on climate change?s impact on the water environment and hydrological regime. The results indicate a strong relationship between the climatological parameters and hydrological patterns. This relationship can be determined in ...
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Higgoda K. Janani, Himasha Dilshani Abeysiriwardana, Upaka Rathnayake and Ranjan Sarukkalige
Water footprint (WF) is a comprehensive summation of the volume of freshwater consumed directly and indirectly in all the steps of the production chain of a product. The water footprint concept has been widely used in agricultural water resources managem...
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Matthew C. LaFevor and Carlos E. Ramos-Scharrón
Concerns over freshwater scarcity for agriculture, ecosystems, and human consumption are driving the construction of infiltration trenches in many mountain protected areas. This study examines the effectiveness of infiltration trenches in a subalpine for...
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Shuai Yang, Tingting Kang, Jingyi Bu, Jiahao Chen, Zhipeng Wang and Yanchun Gao
An obvious decline in runoff of the Weihe River has been detected during the last half-century. Climate change and human activity acted as two major factors inducing the reduction. However, little knowledge is acquired on how and to what extent the decad...
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