Gulf Coast Rivers of the Southeastern United States
| Autor: | Amelia K. Ward, G. Milton Ward, Phillip M. Harris |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Rivers of North America ISBN: 9780128188477 Rivers of North America |
| DOI: | 10.1016/b978-0-12-818847-7.00003-3 |
| Popis: | The river basins of the eastern Gulf Coast lie west of the Atlantic slope and east of the Mississippi River. The region has abundant water resources, including seven major rivers that arise and flow through five physiographic provinces in five states to empty into the Gulf of Mexico. These rivers vary widely in size, hydrology, geomorphology, and water chemistry, but experience a similar climate and exhibit many biological similarities. The dominant physiographic province through which the rivers flow is the coastal plain, more specifically, the sections named the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain and the Floridan. There are five freshwater ecoregions within the eastern Gulf of Mexico region, arranged by longitude. These include portions of the Mississippi Embayment and Florida ecoregions, all of the Mobile Bay and Apalachicola ecoregions, and much of the Florida Gulf ecoregion. Two of these, the Mobile Bay and the Apalachicola, follow watershed boundaries of the Mobile and Apalachicola river basins, whereas the remaining three ecoregions include multiple river basins. All rivers in this region flow from north to south into the Gulf of Mexico, and all are located between 84°W and 91°W longitude and 30°N and 35°N latitude. The eastern Gulf Coast rivers encompass a rich variety of aquatic habitats and resources. This diversity is most evident in the fishes, mollusks, crayfishes, and caddisflies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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