River discharges of water and nutrients to the Mediterranean and Black Sea: major drivers for ecosystem changes during past and future decades?

W Ludwig, E Dumont, M Meybeck, S Heussner - Progress in oceanography, 2009 - Elsevier
Rivers are important sources of freshwater and nutrients for the Mediterranean and Black
Sea. We present a reconstruction of the spatial and temporal variability of these inputs since …

Human impact on the environment in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands—a state of the art

J Nyssen, J Poesen, J Moeyersons, J Deckers… - Earth-science …, 2004 - Elsevier
This review analyses the environmental evolution of the Ethiopian highlands in the late
Quaternary. The late Pleistocene (20,000–12,000 14C years BP) was cold and dry, with (1) …

Predicting the oceanic input of organic carbon by continental erosion

W Ludwig, JL Probst, S Kempe - Global Biogeochemical …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
For a large set of major world rivers we established the empirical relations existing between
the observed organic carbon fluxes and the climatic, biologic, and geomorphologic patterns …

Understanding the hydrologic sources and sinks in the N ile B asin using multisource climate and remote sensing data sets

GB Senay, NM Velpuri, S Bohms… - Water Resources …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we integrated satellite‐drived precipitation and modeled evapotranspiration
data (2000–2012) to describe spatial variability of hydrologic sources and sinks in the Nile …

Fluxes of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen to the northern Indian Ocean from the Indian monsoonal rivers

MS Krishna, VR Prasad, V Sarma… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) were measured in 27 major and
medium monsoonal estuaries along the Indian coast during southwest monsoon in order to …

Distribution patterns of recent organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in relation to environmental parameters in the Mediterranean Sea

R Elshanawany, K Zonneveld, MI Ibrahim… - Palynology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
To determine the relationship between the spatial dinoflagellate cyst distribution and
oceanic environmental conditions, 34 surface sediments from the Eastern and Western …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal variations in dissolved organic carbon in the source region of the Yellow River on the Tibetan Plateau

X You, X Li - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Rivers as the link between terrestrial ecosystems and oceans have been demonstrated to
transport a large amount of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to downstream ecosystems. In …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling the water isotope distribution in the Mediterranean Sea using a high-resolution oceanic model (NEMO-MED12-watiso v1. 0): evaluation of model …

M Ayache, JC Dutay, A Mouchet… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
Stable water isotopes (δ 18 O w and δ D w) have been successfully implemented for the first
time in a high-resolution model of the Mediterranean Sea (NEMO-MED12). In this numerical …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of dissolved organic carbon from a tropical river system to the Arabian Sea, southwestern India

BK Nisha, K Balakrishna, HN Udayashankar… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Payaswini-Chandragiri river system comprises two small tropical rivers
originating in the Western Ghats (Patti Ghats reserve forest) of Peninsular India and …

Modeling the water resources of the Black and Mediterranean Sea river basins and their impact on regional mass changes

T Aus der Beek, L Menzel, R Rietbroek… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
For the first time, a dedicated release of the hydrology and water use model WaterGAP3, has
been developed to spatially explicit calculate hydrological fluxes within river basins draining …