Vegetation hardly affected by extreme flood events
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 06:56
in Earth & Climate
Extreme flood events in floodplain grasslands affect carabid beetles and molluscs more than plants. This is the finding of a study by biologists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), TU Berlin, the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), OeKON Kallmuenz and the ILN Buehl, following several years of observations before and after the Elbe floods of August 2002...
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