Multispatial-scale variation in benthic and snag-surface macroinvertebrate assemblages in mid-continent US great rivers

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted R. Angradi ◽  
David W. Bolgrien ◽  
Terri M. Jicha ◽  
Mark S. Pearson ◽  
Debra L. Taylor ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Macroinvertebrate Assemblages ◽  
Great Rivers ◽  
Scale Variation

Great rivers of the ocean

Nature ◽  
2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Great Rivers

An Imperial Disaster

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kingsbury
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Full Moon ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Natural Event ◽  
Cholera Epidemic ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Great Rivers ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

The storm came on the night of 31 October. It was a full moon, and the tides were at their peak; the great rivers of eastern Bengal were flowing high and fast to the sea. In the early hours the inhabitants of the coast and islands were overtaken by an immense wave from the Bay of Bengal — a wall of water that reached a height of 40 feet in some places. The wave swept away everything in its path, drowning around 215,000 people. At least another 100,000 died in the cholera epidemic and famine that followed. It was the worst calamity of its kind in recorded history. Such events are often described as "natural disasters." This book turns that interpretation on its head, showing that the cyclone of 1876 was not simply a "natural" event, but one shaped by all-too-human patterns of exploitation and inequality — by divisions within Bengali society, and the enormous disparities of political and economic power that characterized British rule on the subcontinent. With Bangladesh facing rising sea levels and stronger, more frequent storms, there is every reason now to revisit this terrible calamity.

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