Groundwater/Surface Water Ecotones : Biological and Hydrological Interactions and Management Options (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. The groundwater/surface water ecotone perspective: state of the art; Part II. Function of Groundwater/Surface Water Interfaces: 2. Ecotonal animal assemblages: their interest for groundwater studies; 3. Stochasticity in resource utilization by a larval chironomidae (diptera) community in the bed sediments of a gravel stream; 4. Temporal and spatial dynamics of meiofaunal assemblages in the hyporheic interstitial of a gravel stream; 5. Interstitial fauna along an epigean-hypogean in a Rocky Mountain river; 6. Filter effect of karstic spring ecotones on the population structure of the hypogean amphipod Niphargus virei; 7. Community respiration in the hyporheic zone of a riffle-pool sequence; 8. Diversity, connectivity and variability of littoral, surface water ecotones in three side arms of the Szigetko region (Danube, Hungary); 9. Seasonal dynamics and storage of particulate organic matter within bed sediment of three streams with contrasted riparian vegetation and morphology; 10. Bedsediments: protein and POM content (RITRODAT-Lunz study area, Austria); 12. Surface water/groundwater/forest alluvia ecosystems: functioning of interfaces: the case of the Rhine floodplain in Alsace (France); 13. Modelling of hydrological processes in a floodplain wetland; 14. Contribution to the groundwater hydrology of the Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya; 15. The role of hydrology in defining a groundwater ecosystem; 16. Typology of water transport and chemical reactions in groundwater/lake ecotones; 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; 18. Uses and limitations of ground penetrating RADAR in two riparian systems; Part III. Malfunction of Groundwater/Surface Water Interfaces: Causes and Methods of Evaluation: 19. Heterogeneity of groundwater-surface water ecotones; 20. Failure of agricultural riparian buffers to protect surface waters from groundwater nitrate contamination; 21. Stable nitrogen isotope traqcing of trophic relations in good webs of river and hyporheic habityats; 22. La zone hypodermique du sol ecotone entre eaux meteoriques et eaux souterraines dans l'infiltraqtion des pesticides dissous; 23. Soils of the north-eastern coast of the Caspian Sea as the zone of sea water/groundwater interaction; Part IV. Management and Restoration of Groundwater/Surface Water Interfaces: 24. Ecotones and problems of their management in irrigation regions; 25. Hydrochemistry and ecohydrology of the transition area of the Netherlands Delta and the Brabantse; 26. Cautious reforestation of a wetland after clearfelling; 27. Responses of riparian ecosystems to dewatering of the Aral Sea in the vicinity of the Tedgen and Murgab rivers; 28. Water regime management of desertificated ecotone systems in the Amudarya delta (Aral Sea basin); Part V. Conclusion: 29. Problems and challenges in grounewater/surface water ecotone analysis; Annex.