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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Science: general issues --- Oceanography (seas) --- deep-sea --- anthropogenic impacts --- climate change --- biodiversity --- deep-sea floor integrity --- governance --- Anthropocene --- deep-sea --- anthropogenic impacts --- climate change --- biodiversity --- deep-sea floor integrity --- governance --- Anthropocene

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The North American freshwater fish fauna is the most diverse and thoroughly researched temperate fish fauna in the world. Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes is the only textbook to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date and integrated view of the ecological and evolutionary concepts, principles, and processes involved in the formation and maintenance of this fauna. Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes provides readers with a broad understanding of why specific species and assemblages occur in particular places. Additionally, the text explores how individuals and species interact with each other and with their environments, how such interactions have been altered by anthropogenic impacts, and the relative success of efforts to restore damaged ecosystems.This book is designed for use in courses related to aquatic and fish ecology, fish biology, ichthyology, and related advanced ecology and conservation courses, and is divided into five sections for ease of use. Chapter summaries, supplemental reading lists, online sources, extensive figures, and color photography are included to guide readers through the material and facilitate student learning.Part 1: Faunal origins, evolution, and diversityPresents a broad picture-both spatially and temporally-of the derivation of the fauna, including global and regional geological and climatological processes and their effects on North American fishes.Part 2: Formation, maintenance, and persistence of local populations and assemblagesFocuses on how local fish populations and assemblages are formed and how they persist, or not, through time. Part 3: Form and functionDeals with the relationship of body form and life history patterns as they are related to ecological functions. Part 4: Interactions among individuals and speciesDiscusses the numerous interactions among individuals and species through communication, competition, predation, mutualism, and facilitation. Part 5: Issues in conservationFocuses on several primary conservation issues such as flow alterations and the increasing biotic homogenization of faunas.

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This book is a collection of 12 papers describing the role of hydrology in water resources management. The papers can be divided s according to their area of focus as 1) modeling of hydrological processes, 2) use of modern techniques in hydrological analysis, 3) impact of human pressure and climate change on water resources, and 4) hydrometeorological extremes. Belonging to the first area is the presentation of a new Muskingum flood routing model, a new tool to perform frequency analysis of maximum precipitation of a specified duration via the so-named PMAXΤP model (Precipitation MAXimum Time (duration) Probability), modeling of interception processes, and using a rainfall-runoff GR2M model to calculate monthly runoff. For the second area, the groundwater potential was evaluated using a model of multi-influencing factors in which the parameters were optimized by using geoprocessing tools in geographical information system (GIS) in combination with satellite altimeter data and the reanalysis of hydrological data to simulate overflow transport using the Nordic Sea as an example. Presented for the third area are a water balance model for the comparison of water resources with the needs of water users, the idea of adaptive water management, impacts of climate change, and anthropogenic activities on the runoff in catchment located in the western Himalayas of Pakistan. The last area includes spatiotemporal analysis of rainfall variability with regard to drought hazard and use of the copula function to meteorologically analyze drought.

Research & information: general --- GR2M --- inverse distance weighting --- rainfall-runoff model --- sensitivity analysis --- multi-influencing factors (MIF) --- vertical electrical sounding (VES) --- electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) --- groundwater resource management (GRM) --- hydro-stratigraphy --- well logs --- precipitation --- climate change --- Sen’s estimator --- Mann-Kendall --- Wadi Cheliff basin --- upper Minjiang River --- marginal distribution --- copula --- bivariate joint distribution --- return period --- rainfall partitioning --- dry tropical forest --- gash model --- interception modelling --- Nordic Sea --- overflow flux --- barotropic pressure --- baroclinic pressure --- annual maximum precipitation --- peaks-over-threshold methods --- statistical analysis --- maximum precipitation frequency analysis --- gamma --- Weibull --- log-gamma --- log-normal --- Gumbel distributions --- nonparametric tests --- drought --- trends --- SPI --- mina basin --- Algeria --- Kunhar River Basin --- streamflow --- trend analysis --- Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) --- anthropogenic impacts --- hydrologic flood routing --- Muskingum flood routing model --- meta-heuristic optimization --- self-adaptive vision correction algorithm --- Adaptive Water Management --- stakeholder engagement --- legislation --- survey --- uncertainty in water management --- water requirements of aquatic and water dependent ecosystems --- water resources allocation --- water balance model

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This book is a collection of 12 papers describing the role of hydrology in water resources management. The papers can be divided s according to their area of focus as 1) modeling of hydrological processes, 2) use of modern techniques in hydrological analysis, 3) impact of human pressure and climate change on water resources, and 4) hydrometeorological extremes. Belonging to the first area is the presentation of a new Muskingum flood routing model, a new tool to perform frequency analysis of maximum precipitation of a specified duration via the so-named PMAXΤP model (Precipitation MAXimum Time (duration) Probability), modeling of interception processes, and using a rainfall-runoff GR2M model to calculate monthly runoff. For the second area, the groundwater potential was evaluated using a model of multi-influencing factors in which the parameters were optimized by using geoprocessing tools in geographical information system (GIS) in combination with satellite altimeter data and the reanalysis of hydrological data to simulate overflow transport using the Nordic Sea as an example. Presented for the third area are a water balance model for the comparison of water resources with the needs of water users, the idea of adaptive water management, impacts of climate change, and anthropogenic activities on the runoff in catchment located in the western Himalayas of Pakistan. The last area includes spatiotemporal analysis of rainfall variability with regard to drought hazard and use of the copula function to meteorologically analyze drought.

Research & information: general --- GR2M --- inverse distance weighting --- rainfall-runoff model --- sensitivity analysis --- multi-influencing factors (MIF) --- vertical electrical sounding (VES) --- electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) --- groundwater resource management (GRM) --- hydro-stratigraphy --- well logs --- precipitation --- climate change --- Sen’s estimator --- Mann-Kendall --- Wadi Cheliff basin --- upper Minjiang River --- marginal distribution --- copula --- bivariate joint distribution --- return period --- rainfall partitioning --- dry tropical forest --- gash model --- interception modelling --- Nordic Sea --- overflow flux --- barotropic pressure --- baroclinic pressure --- annual maximum precipitation --- peaks-over-threshold methods --- statistical analysis --- maximum precipitation frequency analysis --- gamma --- Weibull --- log-gamma --- log-normal --- Gumbel distributions --- nonparametric tests --- drought --- trends --- SPI --- mina basin --- Algeria --- Kunhar River Basin --- streamflow --- trend analysis --- Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) --- anthropogenic impacts --- hydrologic flood routing --- Muskingum flood routing model --- meta-heuristic optimization --- self-adaptive vision correction algorithm --- Adaptive Water Management --- stakeholder engagement --- legislation --- survey --- uncertainty in water management --- water requirements of aquatic and water dependent ecosystems --- water resources allocation --- water balance model --- GR2M --- inverse distance weighting --- rainfall-runoff model --- sensitivity analysis --- multi-influencing factors (MIF) --- vertical electrical sounding (VES) --- electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) --- groundwater resource management (GRM) --- hydro-stratigraphy --- well logs --- precipitation --- climate change --- Sen’s estimator --- Mann-Kendall --- Wadi Cheliff basin --- upper Minjiang River --- marginal distribution --- copula --- bivariate joint distribution --- return period --- rainfall partitioning --- dry tropical forest --- gash model --- interception modelling --- Nordic Sea --- overflow flux --- barotropic pressure --- baroclinic pressure --- annual maximum precipitation --- peaks-over-threshold methods --- statistical analysis --- maximum precipitation frequency analysis --- gamma --- Weibull --- log-gamma --- log-normal --- Gumbel distributions --- nonparametric tests --- drought --- trends --- SPI --- mina basin --- Algeria --- Kunhar River Basin --- streamflow --- trend analysis --- Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) --- anthropogenic impacts --- hydrologic flood routing --- Muskingum flood routing model --- meta-heuristic optimization --- self-adaptive vision correction algorithm --- Adaptive Water Management --- stakeholder engagement --- legislation --- survey --- uncertainty in water management --- water requirements of aquatic and water dependent ecosystems --- water resources allocation --- water balance model