The Interactions between Sediments and Water: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Interactions between Sediments and Water, held 51 [Paperback]

This book focuses on sediments as a pollutant in natural freshwater and marine habitats, and as a vector for the transfer of chemicals such as nutrients and contaminants. Sediment-water research is carried out all over the world within a variety of disciplines. The selected papers cover three main topics relating to assessment and/or restoration of disturbed watersheds, sediment-water linkages in terrestrial and aquatic environments and evaluation of sediment and ecological changes in marine and freshwater habitats. Innovative research in both developed and less developed countries is included. Both fundamental research, insight into applied research and system management are covered. The volume will also appeal to readers involved in sediment geochemistry and dynamics, aquatic habitats, water quality, aquatic ecology, river morphology, restoration techniques and catchment management.Interactions between sediments and water.- A: Assessing and/or Restoring Disturbed Watersheds.- Urbanization, sedimentation, and the homogenization of fish assemblages in the Etowah River Basin, USA.- Using deterministic models to assess risk in sediment-impacted estuaries.- Organic matter composition of gravel-stored sediments from salmon-bearing streams.- A scaling approach to spatial variability in early diagenetic processes.- Relationship between Pb/Cd adsorption and metal oxides on surface coatings at different depths in Lake Jingyuetan.- Scavenging of dissolved organic matter (DOM) by amorphous iron hydroxide particles Fe(OH)3(s).- Contemporary transport of suspended material and its deposition in the Vistula River, Poland.- Seston sedimentation in a lowland river (River Spree, Germany): their spatial and temporal variations and controlling factors.- Variations in the water quality of a small urban tropical catchment: implications for load estimation and water quality monitoring.- Measurement of the size and structure of natural aquatic colloids in an urbanised watershed by atomicl€