A predictive model for freshwater bioassessment (Mondego River, Portugal)

Bacterioplankton dynamics in the Mondego estuary (Portugal)

In this work, the density of bacterioplankton and environmental parameters were monitored over a 11 month period (July 1999-June 2000), and also during one tidal cycle (15 June 2000), at two sampling stations, in the estuary of River Mondego. These data were treated by multivariate analyses methods in order to identify the key factors that control the dynamics of the bacterioplankton in the est...

Effect of residence times on River Mondego estuary eutrophication vulnerability.

The south arm of the Mondego estuary, located in the central western Atlantic coast of Portugal, is almost silted up in the upstream area. So, the water circulation is mostly driven by tides and the tributary river Pranto discharges. Eutrophication has been taking place in this ecosystem during last twelve years, where macroalgae reach a luxuriant development covering a significant area of the ...

Model Based Predictive Control of River Reservoirs

The operational water management of river reservoirs has to consider different and sometimes competitive objectives, e. g. navigation conditions, hydro-power generation, flood protection and environmental aspects. Despite of problem specific extensions to cover the non-linear process behavior the application of local standard (PI) controllers to each reservoir can fulfill only basic management ...

River and Freshwater Influences

A coupled circulation-and-ecosystem model, developed as part of the RISE (River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems) program, is used to examine the role of the Columbia River plume in shaping broad patterns of nutrient flux and primary production on the Washington and Oregon coasts. Realistic simulations of summer 2004 and 2005 in ROMS (Regional Ocean Modeling System) are forced by winds from the M...

Validation and Development of COI Metabarcoding Primers for Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Bioassessment