Climate change is amplified in the Arctic, and establishing baseline data for its current character important. Here we present a map of geomorphology Femmilsjøen area, Spitsbergen, northern Svalbard. The regional physiography characterised by low-relief, high elevation mountain plateau, high-relief steep slopes, low-relief coastal lowlands. results indicate that glaciers were most likely warm-b...

1. We investigated the diversity and distribution of freshwater mussels at 40 sites in an agricultural catchment, the River Raisin in south-eastern Michigan, to relate mussel assemblages and individual taxa to reach and catchment-scale variables. Unionids were surveyed by timed searches in 100-m reaches, and in-stream and riparian habitat were quantified as well as flow, water chemistry and cha...

This review covers more than twenty-five years of research listing and discussing the biogeochemical, mineralogical, physical impacts fungus-growing termites (or FGT, Macrotermitinae sub-family) on savanna sediments landscapes. The main mechanisms by which FGT transform surficial geological formations in tropical sub-tropical environments is investigated from a perspective potential legacies se...

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Peatlands are among the largest reservoirs of terrestrial carbon in the northern hemisphere. Understanding how this reservoir will respond to climate changes is critical to assessing potential climate feedbacks. Peatland carbon accumulation rates (PCAR) are controlled by the difference between production and decomposition, which is affected by local and climatic factors including hydrology and ...

Localized studies of arsenic (As) in Bangladesh have reached disparate conclusions regarding the impact of irrigation-induced recharge on As concentrations in shallow (≤50 m below ground level) groundwater. We construct generalized regression models (GRMs) to describe observed spatial variations in As concentrations in shallow groundwater both (i) nationally, and (ii) regionally within Holocene...