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Bio 346 - Freshwater Eco. (Chpt 29) --> Reservoirs Flashcards

1
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What are 3 things reservoirs are primarily used for?

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  1. Irrigation
  2. Water supply
  3. Fish farming
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How are reservoirs typically constructed?

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Constructed by damming rivers in regions where evaporation approaches or exceeds precipitation with the water typically derived from local rivers during rainy periods

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What are large volumed reservoirs primarily used for?

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Hydroelectric power generation

- Constructed where precipitation can be low or high to have river discharge

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What has major ramifications on reservoirs for river discharge and its timing for sediment and nutrient retention behind dams?

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Water retention

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What are 3 things that happens to reservoirs at lower latitudes?

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  1. Longer growing season
  2. Longer stratification period
  3. Higher water temp
  4. Lack of ice cover
  5. Receives a much greater put of inorganic matter from their well-vegetated catchments than dimicdic lakes
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Epilimnion

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The upper layer of water in a stratified lake

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Thermocline

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A steep temp gradient in a body of water such as a lake, marked by a layer above and below which the water is at different temps

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Hypolimnion

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The lower layer of water in a stratified lake

- Typically cooler than the water above

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Lacustrine (define)

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In the deepest region downstream from the transition zone and where strictly limnteic processes dominate

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Riverine Zone (define)

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An island or coastal area comprising both land and water, characterized by limited land lines of communication with extensive water surface and/or inland waterways that provide natural routes for surface transportation and communications

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Transition zone (define)

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Area between 2 states (land and water)

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What does increase in erosion lead to? (5 things)

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  1. Degradation of the original river channel
  2. Effects sediment characteristics
  3. Lowers the groundwater table
  4. Impacts the feeding and spawning habitats of fishes
  5. Impacts the biota of the rivers in general
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Whats happens when you trap sediment and their absorbed nutrients behind dams?

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It removes the rivers role as a fertilizing agent to previously undisturbed and seasonally flooded wetlands, crop-growing areas downstream and the receiving estuaries
- Dams act as barriers

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What kind of sediment is in high flowing waters?

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Course sediment

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What kind of sediment is in low flowing waters?

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Fine sediment

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What do flood control dams do?

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Reduce seasonal variations in discharge

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What are 6 factors both artificial and natural lakes lie along?

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  1. Gradients of climate
  2. Geology
  3. Morphometry
  4. Flushing
  5. Chemistry
  6. Biology
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What are the 3 types of reservoirs?

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  1. Mainstream reservoirs
  2. Tributary storage reservoirs
  3. Mainstream storage reservoirs
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Mainstream reservoirs (4 things)

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  • Most river like (WRT = days–>weeks)
  • Constructed to generate electricity
  • Experience no temp stratification
  • Experience no seasonal lowering of the water
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Tributary storage reservoirs (4 things)

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  • Longest WRT (month–> years)
  • Greatest possibility of temp stratification
  • Built on small rivers
  • Usually built for flood control and irrigation
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Mainstream storage reservoirs (2 things)

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  • Intermediate WRT (usually a few months)

- Its more lotic during high runoff periods and switches to more lentic at other times

22
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When does washout of phytoplankton commence?

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At lower WRT in turbid, deeply mixed or cold reservoirs where conditions for photosynthesis are much less favourable than in shallow systems of low turbidity at summer temps

23
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Larger organisms have what kind of growing rate and doubling time?

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  • Slower

- Longer

24
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Riverine Zone (7 things)

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  1. Narrow
  2. High flow and rapid water flushing
    - High turbidity
  3. High suspended spoils
  4. Low light
    - limits planktonic pp, but high benthic pp
  5. Relatively high nutrients
  6. Growth rate is less than flushing rate
  7. Coarse sediment
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Transition zone (7 things)

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  1. Broader
  2. Reduced flow and flushing
    - Low turbidity
  3. Reduced suspended solids
  4. Increased light availability
    - High planktonic pp, low benthic pp
  5. Low nutrient supply
  6. Fine sediment
  7. Dissolved O2 is high when unstratified and low when stratified
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Lacustrine zone (7 things)

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  1. Broad and deep
  2. Little flow and slowest water flushing
  3. Relatively clear = good lighting (better higher up)
  4. Nutrient supply by internal recycling
  5. Growth rate is higher than flushing rate
  6. Fine sediment
  7. Dissolved O2 is variable
27
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What is very important about resident time?

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It creates a stable community

28
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What does shortening of the resident time do?

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Cant double up which results in low transparency (due to low grazers)

29
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Storage reservoirs experience what annually?

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Drawdown

- which is a primary response to seasonably changing needs for hydroelectric power or irrigation water

30
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What is aging linked to?

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  1. Oxidation of the terrestrial vegetation
  2. Flooded soil organic matter
  3. Shifts in the composition and abundance of biota during its transition from a primary riverine (lotic) to a lake (lentc) assemblage
31
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Trophic upsurge

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During the early years after it is filled, nutrient [ ] and productivity at all trophic levels are usually elevated

32
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What percent of global water is fresh?

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3%

- drinking, irrigation and industrial use

33
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How much fresh of the 3% of freshwater is hard to use? And why?

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  • 99.7%

- Held in glaciers and deep aquifers

34
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What does water balance depend on?

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Ratio between inflow, precipitation and evaporation

35
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What can the balance of water be effected by?

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  1. Dams or diversion
  2. Climate change
    - Resulting open systems into closed systems with no outflow
36
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How are salts and chemicals transported?

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By wind

37
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Health consequences (5 things)

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  1. Higher child mortality
  2. Lower life expectancy (64 –> 51 years)
  3. Increase in cancer
  4. DNA damage
  5. Birth abnormalities
38
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How do you stabilize lake levels?

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Increase water input into basin

39
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What are 5 problems due to dams?

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  1. Human displacement
  2. Blockage of fish passage and transportation
  3. Holdback of sediment, erosion downstream
  4. Changes downstream quality
  5. Reduced productivity
40
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3 Gorges dam in China

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  • Flood control, hydro power, transportation, water supply
  • Loss of agricultural land, historical sites
  • Local climate, public health, soil stability
41
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Dam diversion (Past and future problems)

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  • Largely political
  • Careful consideration of economics
  • Education of public as to value of water and increase cost
  • International co-operation efforts
  • Conservation
  • Re-use
42
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What are some impacts due to dams?

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  1. Increase in accumulation of Hg in fish and neurodegenerative symptoms in humans
43
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What happens to the loading of oceans and salinity if the creation of dams increase to meet the increasing rate of consumption?

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  • Loading to oceans will decrease

- Salinity would increase as a result

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