Floodplains : physical geography, ecology and societal interactions / Marc A. Álvarez, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Water and people in the yaere floodplain (North Cameroon) / F. Delclaux [and others] -- Ch. 2. Designing actions for bird conservation at the "Yuriria" Lagoon, its associated floodplain and terrestrial habitats in Michoacán, Mexico / Leonardo Chapa-Vargas, Javier Salgado-Ortiz and Karina Monzalvo-Santos -- Ch. 3. The 'floodplain burning' approach for digital elevation model processing in flat and flooded areas / Augusto C.V. Getirana [and others] -- Ch. 4. Temporal and spatial variability of water and sediment composition in the middle Paraná River system / María Alejandra Maine [and others] -- Ch. 5. Benthic invertebrates in the middle Paraná River floodplain (Argentina) / Florencia Zilli and Luciana Montalto -- Ch. 6. Flood inundation and the temporal dynamics of floodplain waterholes in an Australian dryland river / E.S.F. Medeiros and A.H. Arthington -- Ch. 7. Metapopulations of decapods in the floodplain of Paraná River, South America / V. Williner, F. Giri and P. Collins -- Ch. 8. A successful combined use of telemetric monitoring system and spatial data modeling to study the turbidity behavior in the Amazon floodplain / Enner H. Alcantara [and others] -- Ch. 9. Characterization of geometric properties of simulated droughts and floods of water bodies / Dinesh Sathyamoorthy -- Ch. 10. Disaster-resilient subdivision design : evaluating the potential and performance of new urbanism for reducing flood risks / Mark R. Stevens, Philip R. Berke, Yan Song -- Ch. 11. Recent evolution of the Jourdain River braidplain on Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu / James P. Terry -- Ch. 12. Restoration of channelized fluvial systems and their floodplains / Aaron R. Pierce.

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