Groundwater Surface Water Ecotones: Biological and Hydrological Interactions and Management Options (International Hydrology Series)

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
List of authors......Page 11
Preface......Page 14
I - INTRODUCTION......Page 16
1 - The groundwater/surface water ecotone perspective: state of the art......Page 18
II - FUNCTION OF GROUNDWATER / SURFACE WATER INTERFACES......Page 24
2 - Ecotonal animal assemblages; their interest for groundwater studies......Page 26
3 - Stochasticity in resource utilization by a larval chironomidae (diptera) community in the bed sediments of a gravel stream......Page 36
4 - Temporal and spatial dynamics of meiofaunal assemblages in the hyporheic interstitial of a gravel stream......Page 44
5 - Interstitial fauna along an epigean-hypogean gradient in a Rocky Mountain river......Page 52
6 - Filter effect of karstic spring ecotones on the population structure of the hypogean amphipod Niphargus virei......Page 57
7 - Community respiration in the hyporheic zone of a riffle-pool sequence......Page 66
8 - Diversity, connectivity and variability of littoral, surface water ecotones in three side arms of the Szigetköz region (Danube, Hungary)......Page 72
9 - Seasonal dynamics and storage of particulate organic matter within bed sediment of three streams with contrasted riparian vegetation and morphology......Page 83
10 - Bedsediments: Protein and POM content (RITRODAT-Lunz study area, Austria)......Page 90
11 - Dynamics and vertical distribution of particulate organic matter in river bed sediments (Morava River, Czech Republic)......Page 97
12 - Surface water/groundwater/forest alluvial ecosystems: functioning of interfaces. The case of the Rhine floodplain in Alsace (France)......Page 106
13 - Modelling of hydrological processes in a floodplain wetland......Page 117
14 - Contribution to the groundwater hydrology of the Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya......Page 126
15 - The role of hydrology in defining a groundwater ecosystem......Page 134
16 - Typology of water transport and chemical reactions in groundwater/lake ecotones......Page 142
17 - Development of a water transfer equation for a groundwater/surface water interface and use of it to forecast floods in the Yanghe Reservoir Basin......Page 150
18 - Uses and limitations of ground penetrating RADAR in two riparian systems......Page 155
III - MALFUNCTION OF GROUNDWATER / SURFACE WATER INTERFACES: CAUSES AND METHODS OF EVALUATION......Page 164
19 - Heterogeneity of groundwater-surface water ecotones......Page 166
20 - Failure of agricultural riparian buffers to protect surface waters from groundwater nitrate contamination......Page 177
21 - Stable nitrogen isotope tracing of trophic relations in food webs of river and hyporheic habitats......Page 181
22 - La zone hypodermique du sol écotone entre eaux météoriques et eaux souterraines dans l'infiltration des pesticides dissous......Page 187
23 - Soils of the north-eastern coast of the Caspian Sea as the zone of sea water/groundwater interaction......Page 193
IV - MANAGEMENT AND RESTORATION OF GROUNDWATER / SURFACE WATER INTERFACES......Page 198
24 - Ecotones and problems of their management in irrigation regions......Page 200
25 - Hydrochemistry and ecohydrology of the transition area of the Netherlands Delta and the Brabantse Wal......Page 209
26 - Cautious reforestation of a wetland after clearfelling......Page 219
27 - Responses of riparian ecosystems to dewatering of the Aral Sea in the vicinity of the Tedgen and Murgab rivers......Page 223
28 - Water regime management of desertificated ecotone systems in the Amudarya delta (Aral Sea basin)......Page 227
V - CONCLUSION......Page 234
29 - Problems and challenges in groundwater/surface water ecotone analysis......Page 236
ANNEX......Page 240
Round Table 1: Riparian vegetation and water quality improvement......Page 242
Round Table 2: Biodiversity in groundwater/surface water ecotones: central questions......Page 246
Round Table 3: Modelling of flows at the interface......Page 251
Round Table 4: Contribution of the groundwater/surface water ecotone concept to our knowledge of river ecosystem functioning......Page 253
Round Table 5: Groundwater/surface water interface and effective resource management......Page 258