Joe Kendall Neel, Sr.: A Northern Prairie Stream.—With 102 figs, 38 tab., 274 pp. Grand Forks: University of North Dakota Press 1985. $ 15.—
✍ Scribed by H. Caspers
- Book ID
- 102280866
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Volume
- 71
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-2944
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✦ Synopsis
The fact t,hat this potamological study of R watsrshed in the Lake Agassiz Plain along the Minencsota-Korth Dakota bord-r WAS published iis a book demonstrates that these investigrtions were intensively performed ovzr a long succession of years. Another basis is the previous experience of the author, a, professor emvitus at, th3 University of North Dakota, on running waters in Kentucky, the Ozarks, and in the Missouri and Upper Mississippi Basins. The Turtle River is a constantly discharging tribut,ary of thr: R:d River of th-North, driLining an intensively farmed area of glacial Lake Agassiz Plain, R w Lt:rsh-d with great groundwater storage and severe winter climate. Observved stream b-d nlterations were caused by beaver damming and spring freshet erosion. Chemical analyses of precipitation,evapotrarispiration,groundwater and stream runoff carriedout over several years allow seasonal and annual comparisons, and indicate changes experienced by precipitation in flow through the watershed. Biological d.ata deal mainly with attached vegetation and invertebrates, including photosynthetic intensity and diversity of macrobenthos. In a conclusions section