Do Environmental Stream Classifications Support Flow Assessments in Mediterranean Basins?

Integrated Regional Assessments in support of ICZM in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Basins; IOC. Technical series; Vol.:111; 2014

Tidal Stream Energy Extraction in Coastal Basins

Tidal Stream Energy Extraction in Coastal Basins A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Scott Draper St Catherine's College, Oxford Trinity Term 2011 In recent years the extraction of energy from tidal streams has grown in popularity as a potential source of clean renewable energy. To extract this energy, tidal devices, resembling underwater turbines or hydroplanes, are deplo...

Accounting for environmental flow requirements in global water assessments

As the water requirement for food production and other human needs grows, quantification of environmental flow requirements (EFRs) is necessary to assess the amount of water needed to sustain freshwater ecosystems. EFRs are the result of the quantification of water necessary to sustain the riverine ecosystem, which is calculated from the mean of an environmental flow (EF) method. In this study,...

Environmental selection of protistan plankton communities in hypersaline anoxic deep-sea basins, Eastern Mediterranean Sea

High salt concentrations, absence of light, anoxia, and high hydrostatic pressure make deep hypersaline anoxic basins (DHABs) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea one of the most polyextreme habitats on Earth. Taking advantage of the unique chemical characteristics of these basins, we tested the effect of environmental selection and geographic distance on the structure of protistan communities. Ter...

Assessing the Representativeness of Stream Geomorphology Parameters in Basins

The BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Non-point Sources, Release 2) system, created under the auspice of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), uses An'Vie\\, as a framework to integrate several hydrologic/hydraulic and water quality models. The BASINS system also includes a national stream characteristic database that contains reach-scale data on mean stream widt...