THE EFFECTS OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ON ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTS
| Autor: | Jack C. Nelson, Donald G. Rauschuber, Lial F. Tischler |
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| Rok vydání: | 1973 |
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Upstream (petroleum industry)
Biological data geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology business.industry Limnology Environmental resource management Simulation modeling Environmental engineering Estuary Water resources Hydrology (agriculture) Environmental science Water quality business Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 9:1249-1257 |
| ISSN: | 1752-1688 1093-474X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1973.tb05862.x |
| Popis: | The Texas Water Development Board, the principal water resource planning agency of the State, has been conducting extensive estuarine data collection activities and associated research to determine the required quantity and quality of fresh water inflows necessary to maintain various environmental conditions in Texas estuaries to preserve the estuarine ecosystems. These activities are a consequence of a statutory directive to the Board to make provisions in its State Water Plan for the effects of upstream water resource development on the associated estuaries. This paper reports on the results of the first phase of an extensive estuarine research project. The objectives of the research project are to (1) define the interrelationships between estuarine ecosystems and fresh water and nutrient inflows, and (2) develop and test quantitative simulation techniques which describe these relationships. In order to accomplish the first objective, physical and chemical water quality data and biological data on the estuarine ecosystems are being collected, compiled and analyzed. The second objective is being satisfied by the development of hydrodynamic and ecologic simulation models of the estuarine environment. |
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