WAT310 – The nature of water resources
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Articles marked * are available as PDF-files at student portal
Literature written with grey types is supplementary reading
Bibliography, grouped under lecturers
Tollan
 HYDROLOGY
Arnell, Nigel (2002): Hydrology and global environmental change. Harlow:Prentice Hall
XVIII, 346 p.
Clarke, Robin and Jannet King (2004): The atlas of water. Myriad Editions, for
Earthscan, 127 p. (ISBN: 1-84407-133-2)
Tollan, Arne (2002): Vannressurser. Universitetsforlaget, 227 s.
World Water Assessment Programme (2006): Water - a shared responsibility. UNESCO Berghahn Books, 584 p
Bakke
 WATER FORMING THE LANDSCAPE
 FROZEN WATER FORMING THE LANDSCAPE
Summerfield, M. A. 1991, Global geomorphology : an introduction to the study of
landforms. Chap. 9; Fluvial Landforms (pp. 207-234).
Benn, D. I. & D. J.A. Evans 1998. Glaciers & Glaciation. Chap. 1: Glacier Systems (pp.
3-64).
Kvamstø
 THE HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE AND PRECIPITATION PROCESSES
 PRECIPITATION PATTERNS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Danielson, Levine, Abramson 1998, Meteorology, McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-697-21711-6.
Chaps 5 & 6. (pp. 130-137, 160-177)
Hartmann, D. 1994, Global Physical Climatology, AP, ISBN 0-12-328530-5. Chaps 1, 5,
6 (parts of these pp. 1-11, 115-122, 155-167).
IPCC, 2001 Climate change, Cambridge Univ Press, Chaps 2.5, 2.7, 9. (pp. 142-145,
157-160).
Larsson
 RUNNING WATER
 LIFE IN LAKES AND PONDS
 INDIVIDUAL ADAPTIONS TO LIFE IN WATER
 INTERACTIONS AND COMMUNITY EFFECTS
Brönsmark, Christer & Lars-Anders Hansson 2004, The biology of lakes and ponds.
Second edition. Oxford University Press. 216 pp.
Rosland
 MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN IMPACTS
 MODELLING MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
*Caddy, J. F. 2000. Marine catchment basin effects versus impacts of fisheries on semienclosed seas. ICES Journal of Marine Science 57(3): 628-640.
*Cloern, J.E. 2001. Review. Our evolving conceptual model of the coastal eutrophication
problem. Marine Ecology Progress Series 210: 223-253.
Dobsen, M. & C. Fried 1998, Ecology of aquatic systems. Longman 1998. 222 pp. Chaps
3-4: (pp 56-78, 79-107).
*Kennish, M. J. 2002. Environmental threats and environmental future of estuaries.
Environmental Conservation 29(1): 78-107.
*Moll, A. and G. Radach (2003). Review of three-dimensional ecological modelling
related to the North Sea shelf system - Part 1: models and their results. Progress in
Oceanography 57(2): 175-217.
Svendsen
 CIRCULATION AND EXCHANGE PROCESSES IN FJORDS AND COASTAL AREAS (I-II)
Svendsen, H. (2005). Circulation and exchange processes in fjords and coastal areas.
Lecture notes, University of Bergen.
Vetaas (paper template in copy room, *available as PDF-files at student portal)
 WATER AND ENERGY: GLOBAL VEGETATION COVER AND DIVERSITY
 WATER AND ENERGY: LANDSCAPE FORMATION
Miller, G. T. 2004. Living in the Environment, 13. ed. Chaps 6 (7): Biogeography:
climate, biomes, and terrestrial biodiversity.
Holdrige, L.R., Grenke, W.C., Hatheway, W.H., Liang, T. & Toshi, J.A. Jr 1971. Forest
Environment in Tropical Life Zones – A Pilot Study. Pergamon Press, New York.
Chap. 2: The classification of climate and vegetation.
*O'Brien, E.M. (2006) Biological Relativity to Water-energy dynamics. Journal of
Biogeography, 33, in press.
*Stephenson, N.L. (1998) Actual evapotranspiration and deficit: biologically meaningful
correlates of vegetation distribution across scales. Journal of Biogeography, 25, 855870.