Topics covered: 1. Conceptual framework – agents of pattern formation. 2. Abiotic factors – geology, geomorphology, hydrology, soils. 3. Climatic factors – temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, meteorology. 4. Climate-landform effects on vegetation pattern, ecological flows, disturbance regimes and geomorphological processes. 5. Resource management implications – climate change scenarios...

Discussion: Concerning an Increase in the Potency of Mosaic Virus in Vitro: DR. PETER K. OLITSKY and DP. FILIP C. FORSBECK. Geomorphological Evidence of a Climatic Boundary: PROFESSOR RICHARD JOEL RUSSELL. Chlorates as Herbicides: DR. W. E. LOOMIS, RUSSELL BISSEY and E. V. SMITH. The Causative Organism of a Papular Type of Apple Measles: PROFESSOR ANTHONY BERG. Biological Abstracts: DP. PAUL D....

We evaluated the restoration of physical habitats and its influence on macroinvertebrate community structure in 18 Danish lowland streams comprising six restored streams, six streams with little physical alteration and six channelized streams. We hypothesized that physical habitats and macroinvertebrate communities of restored streams would resemble those of natural streams, while those of the ...

Climate variations and historical land use had a major impact on landscape development in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica). In southeast Brazil, rainforest expanded under warm-humid climate conditions in the late Holocene, but have been dramatically reduced in historical times. Nevertheless, the numerous remaining forest fragments are of outstanding biological richness. In our res...

Oil spill models are combined with bathymetric, meteorological, oceanographic, and geomorphological data to model a series of oil spill accidents in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. A total of 104 oil spill simulations, computed for 11 different locations in the Levantine Basin, show that oil slicks will reach the coast of Cyprus in four (4) to seven (7) days in summer conditions. Oil slick traje...

The recognition and the study of several spatial phenomena strongly depends on the resolution at which the analysis is carried out. The availability of an efficient way to represent the same phenomena at different resolutions is therefore very important (from both a mathematical and a computational point of view). Wavelets, families of base functions generated by dilation and translation of a m...

On Kranjsko polje in central Slovenia, carbonate conglomerates have been dated to several Pleistocene glacial phases by relative dating based on the morphostratigrafic mapping and borehole data, and by paleomagnetic and 10Be analyses. To define how the age of conglomerates determines the geomorphological characteristics of karst surface features, morphometrical and distributive spatial analyses...