Acidification is a widespread phenomenon that damages aquatic systems, and it has been the focus of intensive management efforts. While most management has focused on community structure as an endpoint, ecosystem function is also sensitive to acidification and important in stream health. We examined how a key ecosystem function in streams, leaf breakdown, varied along a gradient of pH resulting...

Local species richness (LSR) in stream fish assemblages is related to both local habitat conditions and stream spatial position. In this study, we examined the within-basin distribution of LSR in the Upper Saône River (France). We describe the longitudinal patterns in LSR and assess the relative effects of both local habitat and spatial (upstream and downstream) influences on species richness. ...

SUMMARY An experimental study has been made of an incompressible turbulent plane jet exhausting downstream into an external flow having a favourable longitudinal pressure gradient approximating that of two-dimensional sink flow. Four flows were studied, for which the ratios of mainstream and jet velocities at the exit plane of the jet were in the range from 0.1 to 0.5. For each case velocity pr...

The present study aims to utilize an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to modeling the rainfallrunoff relationship in a catchment area located in a semiarid region of Iran. The paper illustrates the applications of the feed forward back propagation for the rainfall forecasting with various algorithms with performance of multi-layer perceptions. The monthly stream of Jarahi Watershed was analyzed ...

-Fish assemblages were sampled seasonally at Village Creek, a blackwater tributary of the Neches River in Hardin County, Texas. Forty-four fish species were captured from aquatic mesohabitats that included backwater pools, deep channel pools, sloping sandbanks, sandy riffles, and shallow channel margins. Associations between fish assemblage structure and mesohabitats were strong, yet also affec...

1. Conservation biologists need tools that can utilize existing data to identify areas with the appropriate habitat for species of conservation concern. Regression models that predict suitable habitat from geospatial data are such a tool. Multiple logistic regression models developed from existing geospatial data were used to identify largescale stream characteristics associated with the occurr...

I. INTRODUCTION Many imaging problems, such as breast lesion characterization, can require high spatial and temporal resolution. The improved gradient performance required to achieve high spatial and temporal resolution may be achieved by specially designed local gradient coils such as planar gradient inserts. We present simple and rapid method for design of flat gradient inserts to produce a h...

We study the problem of indexing continuous data streams in which data are heterogeneous in structure. Such data streams arise naturally in many real-life scenarios such as sensor networks. Our index structure uses bitmap based techniques to efficiently sketch the structures to allow space-efficient lossless archiving of the data stream. It also allows very fast query processing on the archived...