Hydrologic/water quality models are increasingly used to explore management and policy alternatives for managing water quality and quantity from intensive silvicultural practices with best management practices (BMPs) in forested watersheds due to the limited number of and cost of conducting watershed monitoring. The Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX) model was field-tested using ...

Where rivers enter the coastal zone, gradually varying non-uniform flow conditions develop in the channel. This section of the river is referred to as the backwater segment, and for large rivers, backwater flow extends many hundreds of kilometres upstream of the river outlet. Studies from the Mississippi River document a persistent backwater zone that influences sediment mobility throughout the...

Staying attached at a favorable site can be a major challenge for organisms in flow. Meeting this challenge depends on properties of the attachment structure and substrate, the nature of fluid flow, and the ability to adjust attachment force in response to hydrodynamic conditions. A broad taxonomic range of adult stages use adhesion or suction to attach to hard substrates in intertidal habitats...

cohesive sediment transport remains a complicated subject that hydraulic engineers are frequently faced with in water-related engineering problems. this is primarily affected by the macroscopic aspects of water-sediment system characteristics. in this paper a 1-d mathematical model was developed to be employed in predicting the cohesive sediment transport under simultaneous conditions of erosio...

The changes in channel geometry downstream of Hapcheon Dam, South Korea, are closely examined. Daily pulses of water from peak hydropower generation and from sudden sluice gate operations affect the 45-km reach of the Hwang River between the Hapcheon Reregulation Dam and the Nakdong River. From 1983 to 2003, the median bed-material size, d50, increased from 1.0 to 5.7 mm, and the bed slope of t...

Using lateral intake is a method of floodwater diverting. In arid and semi-arid areas, floodwatercontains a large amount of sediment that will be carried in to the intakes and it causes a reduction inchannel conveyance. Sediment is almost transported into the intake and it is settled in the upstreamside of lateral channel. Sedimentation in this zone reduces the conveyance of lateral channel and...

We determined the extent that a riparian buffer reduces stream suspended sediment concentrations by filtering road runoff during 18 rain events in a 2.5-ha, multi-use watershed in northern Thailand. The dominant buffer species was the perennial sedge Fimbristylis aphylla Zoll. ex Steud. (Cyperaceae). We monitored stream sediment concentration for situations where road runoff either flowed into ...

The movement of fluvial sediment shapes our rivers. Understanding sediment entrainment has been a goal of hydraulic engineers for almost a century1,2. Previous sediment entrainment models have been informed by laboratory experiments using grains that were free from biological material3. In natural river settings, however, sediments are invariably covered by bacteria, often forming visible biofi...

Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus strain AHT2(T) is a strictly anaerobic sulfidogenic haloalkaliphile isolated from a composite sediment sample of eight hypersaline alkaline lakes in the Wadi al Natrun valley in the Egyptian Libyan Desert. D. alkaliphilus AHT2(T) is Gram-negative and belongs to the family Desulfobulbaceae within the Deltaproteobacteria. Here we report its genome sequence, which cont...