J. Rutschke's scientific contributions

Publications (2)

Article
During the last two decades an increasing number of sand and gravel-pits were established in the original flood plain of the River Rhine. Some of these are connected with the stream by a small canal for the transport of the spoil. Some of these dredged lakes have been studied during recent years at the ecological field station of the University of...

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... The effect of borrow pits is an issue that transcends the Platte River. Globally, similar types of pits exist as a result of various surface mines created close to the water table (e.g., Milne 1974, Catchpole and Tydeman 1975, Neumann et al. 1994, Kondolf et al. 2002, Hilldale and Klawon 2005, Řehounková and Prach 2008, Mollema et al. 2015, Zhao et al. 2016. Although originally excavated for extraction of materials, such as limestone, clay, or sand and gravel, many lakes now serve other purposes after material extraction (Antosch 1984, Matter and Mannan 1988, Baasch et al. 2017. ...