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Role of Rivers in the Carbon Cycle and the Impact of Anthropogenic Activities
The carbon cycle’s key processes are governed by the river networks. They start to matter for estimating human-caused carbon emissions and further...
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Response of the River Jhelum to Active Tectonics, NW Himalaya
The River Jhelum and its tributaries form the main drainage system of the Kashmir Valley, India. Flowing through the axial part of the tectonically...
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Pedological Characteristics of Montenegro
Speleology is a cross-disciplinary field that studies caves and other karst features, as well as their structure, physical properties, history, life...
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Biodiversity of Montenegrin Caves
The territory of Montenegro represents one of the impressive hotspots of cave-dwelling fauna diversity in the world. As many as 1600 speleological...
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The Changing World of Mountains in the Long Term
Stating that geological time is very different from human time does not reveal anything new. Events are usually measured in centuries, decades,...
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The Climate of the Mountains, Originality and Spatial Variability
There are many features that make mountains a complex system where everything is interrelated. Elevation is perhaps the most important of these,...
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Climate Change Effects on Debris Flows
In mountain areas with human infrastructure, debris flows are a curse. They are abundant and dreaded as they arrive, usually without warning, and...
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Warning Systems and Instrumentation
In the last two decades, sensors and techniques for debris-flow monitoring and their application for warning purposes have progressed significantly...
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Debris-Flow Risk Assessment
Risk assessments can inform a wide variety of decisions related to debris flows, such as: Is the community safe enough? Where is mitigation needed?...
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Lahars: Origins, Behavior and Hazards
Volcanic debris flows that originate at potentially active volcanoes are called lahars. Lahars are like debris flows in non-volcanic terrain but can...
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Fatalities from Debris Flows: Worldwide Distribution and Trends
Debris flows are the extremely rapid (often channelized) movement of unconsolidated and saturated slope forming materials. Once triggered, these mass...
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Flume Modeling of Debris Flows
Debris flows are unique compared to other types of landslides (e.g., rock avalanches; dry granular flows) because their dynamics are governed by both...
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Comprehensive River Health Assessment System for Indian Rivers: A Case Study of Central Indian River Narmada
Rivers served mankind for eons and fulfilled their needs for water supply. However, rivers have been drastically modified and exploited due to the...
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Assessment of Seasonal Variation in Water Quality of Gomti River, Jaunpur City, India
The city of Jaunpur is an ancient city, situated on the banks of river Gomti. Population growth and urbanization rate in the last few decades have...
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Forests of the Karst Region of Montenegro—Main Characteristics and Vulnerabilities
This chapter presents the forest ecosystems of the Montenegrin karst region. The Montenegrin karst forests are mainly low forests of thermophilic...
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Underwater Cave Systems in the Montenegrin Littoral
The diversity and specificity of underwater cave systems in the Montenegrin Littoral is conditioned by the complex geological structure, tectonic...
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Caves and Karst of the Prokletije Mountains
The Prokletije Mountains are the highest range in the Dinaric Alps. Karst phenomena are developed in the carbonates of the Mesozoic age and belong to...
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Hydrogeological Characteristics of Montenegro
Carbonate rocks (limestone and dolomite) cover over 60% of Montenegro. The high permeability of the karst aquifer is a consequence of a...
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Hydrology of Surface Water and Climate Characteristics of Montenegro
Hydrological characteristics of surface watercourses will be presented in this paper as primarily determined by the geomorphological and...