出版社:Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
摘要:Floodplains are usually treated subordinate to channels in geomorphological and environmental research.This book brings a wealth of arguments for the joint presentation of river channels and their floodplains.(In Hungary, where morphological floodplains make up almost two-thirds of the territory, this approach should be just natural.) From a geomorphological aspect, the importance of floodplain connectivity is underlined throughout.In the biogeochemical section we read, for instance, that the densities of zooplankton and aquatic macroinvertebrates are much (15 and 30 times, respectively) higher in backwaters or floodplain lakes than in the main Danube channel.