Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera II

Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera II
Author: Christopher G. Majka
Publisher: PenSoft Publishers LTD
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2009-09-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9546425133

This volume includes thirteen research articles focused primarily on Canadian Coleoptera. Several taxonomic and biodiversity studies examine groups within the Staphylinidae, Cerambycidae, Gyrinidae, and Haliplidae, describing new species, presenting keys to identification, mapping distributions, and reporting new provincial and national records. Other studies direct their attention to saproxylic beetles as indicators of forest disturbance, and to the beetle fauna of Rhode Island and the larger zoogeographic utility of distributional checklists. An introductory essay discusses a variety of challenges to biodiversity and biosystematics research worldwide. The contents of present volume represent stepping-stones of biodiversity research ? a discipline vital to the future of life on the planet. The book is addressed to coleopterists, taxonomists, ecologists, biogeographers and conservationists.

Atlas of Hydrologic Characteristics of the Wolf River Basin

Atlas of Hydrologic Characteristics of the Wolf River Basin
Author: Faraedoon Mohamad Amin Qaladize
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN:

An atlas of the hydrologic characteristics of the WolfRiver basin in West Tennessee is derived by using a Geographic Information System (GIS) to simulate the watershed's hydrologic response. A 30-meter digital elevation model (DEM), extracted from the National Elevation Dataset (NED) and managed by United States Geologic Survey (USGS), is used to develop the database of watershed characteristics. Arc Hydro, created by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), and the Geospatial Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-GeoHMS) program, created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ Hydrologic Engineering Center (USACE-HEC), are used to delineate the watershed of the Wolf River basin and develop the hydrologic characteristics (physical parameters) of the main streams (creeks), such as length, slope, subbasin area, longest flow path, basin slope, centroid elevation, and centroidal flow path. These topographic characteristics were needed to analyze and evaluate every subbasin of the WolfRiver floodplain from its outlet to its headwaters. The development of an atlas that contains such information would be an invaluable source of information to municipalities and consultants in the design of storm water networks, the design of box culverts, the design of sanitary sewer systems and interceptors, the complete analysis of flood plains, and the development of a flood hydrograph for each subdivision.

The Wolf on the Rise

The Wolf on the Rise
Author: Wolf River Watershed Research Team
Publisher:
Total Pages: 167
Release: 1977
Genre: Wolf River Watershed Joint District No. 66 (Kan.)
ISBN: