Proceedings of the "Karlsruher Flussgebietstage 2013 - International Conference on Solids in River Basins". Sources and Transport of Solids and Contaminants, Karlsruhe, June 20th and 21st, 2013

The "Karlsruher Flussgebietstage" is a biannual international symposium held at the Institute of Water and River Basin Management (IWG) of KIT. The symposium is a platform for the scientific exchange on specific issues of river basin management.
The meeting in 2013 was focused on solids in river basins. Solids play an important role in both ecosystems and technosphere. They serve as transport vehicle for various pollutants and directly influence water quality, habitat conditions and biogeochemical cycles. The impact on river ecosystems is largely determined by the sources and rate at which solids are delivered to surface water bodies, their residence time in the river systems and their physico-chemical composition.
Thus the Karlsruher Flussgebietstage 2013 were centered on sources and transport processes of solids and particulate contaminants in river basins, considering modeling approaches, data availability, new monitoring techniques and management strategies.