Rivers in the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081766%3A_____%2F20%3A00520251" target="_blank" >RIV/68081766:_____/20:00520251 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15310/19:73599130
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-18363-9_3" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-18363-9_3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18363-9_3" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-18363-9_3</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Rivers in the Czech Republic
Original language description
Being an inland country in Central Europe with rugged relief and located on the main European divide of three seas, the Czech Republic has no other source of water than precipitation. Four major rivers and their numerous tributaries drain the Czech Republic and flow into the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. From a hydromorphologic point of view, two general regions exist within Czech Republic: (i) watercourses of the Bohemian Massif—characterized by minimal transport of bed loads and relatively stable channels, and (ii) watercourses of the Western Carpathians—characterized by significant transport of bed loads even during normal discharge and having dynamic channel development. Although there has been a significant improvement in water quality since 1990, substantial amounts of nitrate are transported downstream without uptake. Of the 76,000 km of natural watercourses, 28.4% are altered. One-third of the length of river channels important for water management has been altered, whereas nearly 40% of small streams in agricultural landscapes have been altered. Eutrophication, morphological alterations of the channels, and interruptions of sediment transport and fish migration are some of the main challenges for the management of our rivers.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40103 - Fishery
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Assessment and protection of water resources in the Czech Republic
ISBN
978-3-030-18362-2
Number of pages of the result
31
Pages from-to
39-69
Number of pages of the book
436
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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