Drought impacts on the water quality of freshwater systems; review and integration

LM Mosley - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Droughts are increasing in frequency and severity in many regions of the world due to
climate change. The meteorological drivers of drought often cause subsequent hydrological …

A review of coastal palaeoclimate and relative sea-level reconstructions using δ13C and C/N ratios in organic material

AL Lamb, GP Wilson, MJ Leng - Earth-Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
Holocene reconstructions of relative sea-level (RSL) and environmental change in the
coastal zone have become progressively more numerous since the importance of assessing …

Estuaries as repositories of historical contamination and their impact on shelf seas

J Ridgway, G Shimmield - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2002 - Elsevier
Estuaries are sites of port, industrial, urban and recreational development and also
important to many forms of animal life. They often form sinks for sediment and thus for …

North American megadroughts in the Common Era: Reconstructions and simulations

BI Cook, ER Cook, JE Smerdon… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
During the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), Western North America experienced episodes
of intense aridity that persisted for multiple decades or longer. These megadroughts are well …

Framework for assessing viability of threatened and endangered Chinook salmon and steelhead in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Basin

ST Lindley, RS Schick, E Mora, PB Adams… - San Francisco …, 2007 - escholarship.org
Protected evolutionarily significant units (ESUs) of salmonids require objective and
measurable criteria for guiding their recovery. In this report, we develop a method for …

[PDF][PDF] 7.07 Use of stable isotopes to understand food webs and ecosystem functioning in estuaries

S Bouillon, RM Connolly, DP Gillikin - Treatise on estuarine and coastal …, 2011 - Citeseer
Stable isotopes have been extensively used to trace element cycles and their incorporation
into food webs. This chapter provides a brief introduction to the principles of using stable …

[HTML][HTML] Oldest human occupation of Wallacea at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, shows broad-spectrum foraging responses to late Pleistocene environments

S Hawkins, S O'Connor, TR Maloney, M Litster… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Wallacea Archipelago provides an extraordinary laboratory for the study of
human colonisation and adaptation, yet few detailed archaeological studies have been …

[PDF][PDF] Open water processes of the San Francisco Estuary: from physical forcing to biological responses

W Kimmerer - San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 2004 - escholarship.org
This paper reviews the current state of knowledge of the open waters of the San Francisco
Estuary. This estuary is well known for the extent to which it has been altered through loss of …

Eocene climate record of a high southern latitude continental shelf: Seymour Island, Antarctica

LC Ivany, KC Lohmann, F Hasiuk… - Geological …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A high-resolution record of Eocene paleo-temperature variation is preserved within the high
southern latitude, marine shelf succession of the La Meseta Formation on Seymour Island …

Economic consequences of optimized water management for a prolonged, severe drought in California

JJ Harou, J Medellín‐Azuara, T Zhu… - Water Resources …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
If abrupt climate change has occurred in the past and may be more likely under human
forcing, it is relevant to look at the adaptability of current infrastructure systems to severe …