Sediment: Curse or blessing for Tonle Sap Lake?

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 158-163

  Kummu, Matti ^a   Penny, Dan ^b   Sarkkula, Juha ^c   Koponen, Jorma ^d  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; RIPARIAN ZONE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

CAMBODIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; VIET NAM; WATER FLOW;

CAMBODIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; VIETNAM; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ASIA; CAMBODIA; EURASIA; MEKONG DELTA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TONLE SAP LAKE; VIET NAM;

EID: 48249128778     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[158:SCOBFT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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46. Acknowledgments: This work was funded by the Academy of Finland (under project 211010). The first author received funding from Helsinki University of Technology. Funding for the collection and analysis of sediment core S2C1 was provided by the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), AusAID, the National Environmental Research Council (UK, dating allocation #832.1299), and the University of Edinburgh Development Trust. Authors are grateful to the whole WUP-FIN team, especially to Yin Savuth, and staff at the Helsinki University of Technology, especially Olli Varis, Marko Keskinen, and Pertti Vakkilainen. The support of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat and the Department of Environment (Cambodia) is gratefully acknowledged.