Floods are major constraints to crop production worldwide. In low-lying, flood-prone areas of the tropics, longer-term partial submergence (stagnant flooding [SF]) greatly reduces rice yield. This study assesses shoot growth and several physiological mechanisms associated with SF tolerance in rice. Five rice genotypes with contrasting responses to SF were evaluated in field ponds. Following tra...

Severe flooding occurred in the midwestern United States in 2001. Since November 2000, coincidentally, data on gastrointestinal symptoms had been collected for a drinking water intervention study in a community along the Mississippi River that was affected by the flood. After the flood had subsided, the authors asked these subjects (n = 1,110) about their contact with floodwater. The objectives...

estimation of seepage from water channels are necessary in evaluating water productivity in agricultural sector as affected by floodwater spreading on plains and artificial recharge of groundwater. several empirical seepage equations have been developed for this purpose. previous research results in iran have shown lots of variation in the coefficients and the empirical equations change in diff...

Insect larvae that live in temporary ponds must cope with a rapidly diminishing resource. We tested the hypothesis that floodwater mosquitoes would react to diminishing water levels by accelerating larval development time and emerging as smaller adults. Since a reduction in habitat size leads to increased larval densities, we also included two larval densities. Newly-hatched floodwater mosquito...

The diversity of cultivable methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) in the rice paddy field ecosystem was investigated by combined culture-dependent and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) techniques. Seven microsites of a Japanese rice paddy field were the focus of the study: floodwater, surface soil, bulk soil, rhizosphere soil, root, basal stem of rice plant, and rice stumps of previous harve...

To test whether large amounts of phosphorus (P) are accumulated in the floodplain during dry antecedent conditions, and whether they would be released as the predominant source of P in the overlaying floodwater, in accord with the Flood Pulse Concept, we calculated the mass balance of P in an intermittent floodplain wetland after environmental water application. The P mass balance was calculate...

To assess the role of floodwater in controlling the exchanges of CO2 and CH4 from soil, floodwater and the canopy in intermittently flooded rice paddies, an intensive field campaign (IREX96) was conducted in Japan during August 1996. Eddy covariance was employed to measure fluxes of heat, water vapor and CO2. The flux-gradient method was used to determine CH4 fluxes from measured profiles of CH...

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