The fluvial record of climate change.

Progressive Climate Change on Titan: Implications for Habitability

Introduction: Titan’s landscape is profoundly shaped by its atmosphere and comparable in magnitude perhaps with only the Earth and Mars amongst the worlds of the Solar System. Like the Earth, climate dictates the intensity and relative roles of fluvial and aeolian activity from place to place and over geologic time. Thus Titan’s landscape is the record of climate change. We have investigated th...

Response of fluvial environments in the Swiss Alps to Late Holocene climate changes

Monitoring of environmental changes of Tabriz plain at Quaternary sediments

Abstract  Sediments provide a continuous, sensitive record of changing conditions of environment and processes within plain and in the surrounding plain, thus they contain significant archives of past environmental change on the continents. Valuable informations on regional and global scale patterns of past climate variability in the Azarbayjan region have been documented by numerous paleocli...

Virus ecology of fluvial systems: a blank spot on the map?

The ecology of viruses has been studied only in a limited number of rivers and streams. In light of a recent re-appraisal of the global fluvial surface area, issues such as abundance and production, host mortality and the influence of suspended particles and biofilms are addressed. Viral life cycles, potential impacts of viruses on water biochemistry and carbon flow, and viral diversity are con...

Application of TELEMAC-2D and SISYPHE to complex estuarine regions to inform future management decisions

Complex, high resolution, finite-element TELEMAC-2D grids have been developed to simulate ocean/fluvial interaction in three shallow, intensively managed Welsh estuaries. In each case, important ecosystems and developed areas are exposed to flooding from both tidal and fluvial events. Of particular concern is how the estuaries will be affected by future sea-level rise due to climate change, and...