The GLOWA-initiative, funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF), has been established to address the consequences of Global Change, which is understood as affecting future development far beyond Climate Change and to include changes in land use, population and development, on regional water resources. The GLOWA-Danube project (www.GLOWA-Danube.de) is dealing with the Upper ...

The relationship between the Lower Danube River level and Romanian annual catches of Pontic shad (Alosa immaculata, Bennett 1835) were analyzed. For analysis of long term data on the Danube River water level and Pontic shad catch, combinations of different methods were applied using statistical programs, SPSS 13.0 and MATLAB 6. Periodograms, containing cyclic patterns, were obtained using Fouri...