Talk:Flood pulse concept

Not all of us are limnology specialists; some of us would love to find an informative article

Could somebody please articulate the differences between the 3 concepts (flood pulse, river continuum and serial discontinuity)? What are their foci, strengths and weaknesses? Where do they converge? And please, put some information in it. The last paragraph is utterly pointless in its present form: e.g. "The flood pulse concept involves many assumptions; many theorists object to the concept on the basis of these assumptions." Thanks in advance! --Denounce (talk) 01:07, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

e.g. The focus of FPC: "The most comprehensive approach focusing on river-floodplain dynamics is the flood pulse concept (FPC; Junk et al., 1989), which promulgated the view that rivers and their fringing floodplains are integrated components of a single dynamic system, linked by strong interactions between hydrological and ecological processes. The major driving force is the pulsing of river discharge that determines the degree of connectivity and the exchange processes of matter and organisms across river-floodplain gradients." Source: Tockner, K., Malard, F., & Ward, J. V. (2000). An extension of the flood pulse concept. Hydrological Processes 14, 2861-2883. --Denounce (talk) 02:09, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]