Reprint of: Salinity responses to inflow alterations in a 6500ha Typha wetland

Garcı́a-Hernández, Jaqueline; Flessa, Karl W.; Santiago-Serrano, Edith; Romero-Hernández, Socorro; Zamora-Arroyo, Francisco; Ramírez‐Hernández, Jorge

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.04.056

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“…Strongly acidic environments are toxic for the growth of Typha species [134]. Typha do not respond well in conditions more saline than natural [127]; as the salinity increases, their overall numbers decline [71] [135], as well as limiting the spread of the rhizome [130] [136]. However, Typha exhibit different sensitivities to salinity at different stages in their life cycle, displaying resilience to changing environmental situations [137].…”

Section: Cattails Responses To Changing Chemical Factorsmentioning

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A River in Drought: Consequences of a Low Nile at the End of the Old Kingdom

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2018

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It is thought that a significant factor in the fall of the Egyptian Old Kingdom was the occurrence of a number of lower than average inundation events that led to a decline in agricultural output, causing a famine that undermined the authority of the government. However, very little consideration has been given to how a lesser volume of water may have impacted upon the Nile itself. This composition investigates the potential for ecological change that may have developed as a consequence of a lower river. Since a lower river exhibits less force, its physical properties should change, which would in turn alter the chemical and biological factors that are expressed. A low Nile should therefore have resulted in changes to the distribution and abundance of plant life along the river. Four plants characteristic to Pharaonic times were investigated to see how they may have responded. Papyrus and Phragmites are suggested as plants that would benefit from a situation where the nutrients remained within the river, whereas Typha and Lotus display characteristic that benefit less when the river retains nutrients that would have normally been lost to the surrounding landscape.

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Section: Cattails Responses To Changing Chemical Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A River in Drought: Consequences of a Low Nile at the End of the Old Kingdom

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2018

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Colorado River flow and biological productivity in the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico

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Alvarez-Borrego

Hastings

et al. 2017

Earth-Science Reviews

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A review of published research indicates that the Northern Gulf of California is, historically and currently, one of the most biologically productive marine regions on Earth. This high productivity is driven by a unique mix of factors, including: coastal upwelling, wind-driven mixing, extreme tidal mixing and turbulence, thermohaline circulation that moves intermediate waters into the mixed layer, coastal-trapped waves, regular sediment resuspension, and, to a lesser extent, agricultural runoff, released nutrients from erosion of ancient Colorado River Delta

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