Essays Tagged: "Floodplain"
"Dynamics of community assembly, disassembly, and reassembly in a neotropical floodplain river"
The research seminar was about the Neotropical Floodplain River, a biogeography region of the New World that stretches southward from the Tropic of ... non-random and only 2 species (3%) were random therefore the hypothesis was not valid. Neotropical Floodplain Rivers are composed of local communities arranged around habitats of differing structural ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Badarian Culture
distances from Africa. There is now doubt that Homo erectus would not have stayed in the rich Nile floodplain for its food and water before making passage to Asia. Though there is artifacts that can ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Dolan v. City of Tigard Brief
CDC required that the petitioner dedicate a portion of her property lying within the 100-year floodplain for improvement of a storm drainage system along Fanno Creek, as well as a 15-foot ... vement of a storm drainage system along Fanno Creek, as well as a 15-foot strip of land adjacent to floodplain to be used as a bicycle and pedestrian walkway.Procedural HistoryThe petitioner requested ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases
What causes flooding?
reat to the loss of human life because of their unpredictability and the short duration of an event.Floodplains in many catchments have been extensively encroached upon, thereby increasing the number ... e number of buildings vulnerable to flooding. In addition, the construction of new buildings on the floodplain in one location can increase flood levels at another location by increasing the amount of ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
FactFile
geography- fieldwork.org/riverfieldwork/river_processes/stage1.htm Gamesby, R. (n.d.). Meanders and Floodplains. Retrieved 2014, from Cool Geography: http://www.coolgeography.co.uk/GCSE/Year%2010/Phys ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays