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Daniel Dvorett Joseph Bidwell Craig Davis Chris DuBois 《Environmental management》2013,52(4):1009-1022
The hydrogeomorphic approach (HGM) to wetland classification and functional assessment has been applied regionally throughout the United States, but the ability of HGM functional assessment models to reflect wetland condition has limited verification. Our objective was to determine how variability derived from anthropogenic effects and natural variability impacted site assessment variables within regional wetland subclasses in central Oklahoma. We collected data for nine potential assessment variables including vegetation physiognomy (e.g., tree basal area, herbaceous cover, canopy cover, etc.) and soil organic matter at wetlands of two HGM riverine subclasses (oxbow and riparian) in May and June, 2010. Using Akaike Information Criteria, we identified limited relationships between landscape disturbance metrics and assessment variables within subclasses. The high degree of natural variability from climatic and hydrologic factors within both subclasses may be masking the impact of landscape disturbance on the other measured assessment variables. Precipitation had significant effects on assessment variables within each of the subclasses. To reduce natural climatic variability, the reference domain may need to be further subdivided. The approach used in this study provides fairly rapid and quantitative methods for evaluating the effectiveness of using HGM assessment variables in assessing wetland condition regionally. 相似文献
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In the United States, the Clean Water Act requires mitigation for wetlands that are negatively impacted by dredging and filling
activities. During the mitigation process, there generally is little effort to assess function for mitigation sites and function
is usually inferred based on vegetative cover and acreage. In our study, hydrogeomorphic (HGM) functional assessment models
were used to compare predicted and potential levels of functional capacity in created and natural reference wetlands. HGM
models assess potential function by measurement of a suite of structural variables and these modeled functions can then be
compared to those in natural, reference wetlands. The created wetlands were built in a floodplain setting of a valley in central
Pennsylvania to replace natural ridge-side slope wetlands. Functional assessment models indicated that the created sites differed
significantly from natural wetlands that represented the impacted sites for seven of the ten functions assessed. This was
expected because the created wetlands were located in a different geomorphic setting than the impacted sites, which would
affect the type and degree of functions that occur. However, functional differences were still observed when the created sites
were compared with a second set of reference wetlands that were located in a similar geomorphic setting (floodplain). Most
of the differences observed in both comparisons were related to unnatural hydrologic regimes and to the characteristics of
the surrounding landscape. As a result, the created wetlands are not fulfilling the criteria for successful wetland mitigation. 相似文献
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Spatial Relationships of Levees and Wetland Systems within Floodplains of the Wabash Basin,USA 下载免费PDF全文
Ryan R. Morrison Erin Bray Fernando Nardi Antonio Annis Quan Dong 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2018,54(4):934-948
Given the unique biogeochemical, physical, and hydrologic services provided by floodplain wetlands, proper management of river systems should include an understanding of how floodplain modifications influence wetland ecosystems. The construction of levees can reduce river–floodplain connectivity, yet it is unclear how levees affect wetlands within floodplains, let alone the cumulative impacts within an entire watershed. This paper explores spatial relationships between levee and floodplain wetland systems in the Wabash Basin, United States. We used a hydrogeomorphic floodplain delineation technique to map floodplain extents and identify wetlands that may be hydrologically connected to river networks. We then spatially examined the relationship between levee presence, wetland area, and other river network attributes within discrete subbasins. Our results show that cumulative wetland area is relatively constant in subbasins that contain levees, regardless of maximum stream order within the subbasin. In subbasins that do not contain levees, cumulative wetland area increases with maximum stream order. However, we found that wetland distributions around levees can be complex, and further studies on the influence of levees on wetland habitat may need to consider finer resolution spatial scales. 相似文献
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Rapid Assessment of Urban Wetlands: Do Hydrogeomorphic Classification and Reference Criteria Work? 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The Hydrogeomorphic (HGM) functional assessment method is predicated on the ability of hydrogeomorphic wetland classification
and visual assessment of alteration to provide reference standards against which functions in individual wetlands can be evaluated.
The effectiveness of this approach was tested by measuring nitrogen cycling functions in forested wetlands in an urbanized
region in New Jersey, USA. Fourteen sites represented three HGM classes and were characterized as “least disturbed reference”
or “non-reference” based on initial visual assessment. Water table levels and in situ rates of net nitrogen mineralization,
net nitrification, and denitrification were measured over one year in each site. Hydrological alterations, resulting in consistently
low or flashy water table levels, were not correlated with a priori designations as reference and non-reference. Although
the flat-riverine wetland class had lower net nitrification and higher denitrification rates than riverine or mineral flat
wetland classes, this difference was attributable to the lack of hydrologically-altered wetlands in the flat-riverine class,
and thus more consistently wet conditions. Within all HGM classes, a classification based on the long-term hydrological record
that separated sites with “normal,” saturated hydrology from those with “altered,” drier hydrology, clearly distinguished
sites with different nitrogen cycling function. Based on these findings, current practices for designating reference standard
sites to judge wetland functions, at least in urbanized regions, are ineffective and potentially misleading. At least one
year of hydrological monitoring data is suggested to classify wetlands into groups that have different nutrient cycling functions,
particularly in urban landscapes. 相似文献
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Wetland loss alters the hydrology of wetlandscapes in poorly understood ways. To quantify the effects of wetland loss on subsurface hydrology, a physically based hydrologic model that simulates the timing and pathways of subsurface hydrologic connections was coupled with wetland inventories over a 50‐year period during which substantial wetland loss occurred. The model revealed, based on vertical variations in saturated hydraulic conductivities, wetland loss of different degrees led to a contraction of catchment contributing areas to local surface waters but an expansion of contributing areas to the regional surface water body. This shift in groundwater contributing areas reflected (1) a decrease in baseflow contribution to the local surface water bodies, and (2) an increase in the transit time and length of subsurface hydrologic connections with an associated increase in the magnitude and age of baseflow discharging to the regional surface water body. The model also showed regions with thick permeable aquifers were particularly sensitive to the loss of wetlands. Our ability to predict these changes in hydrology of the watershed provides important support for designing science‐based policies to promote sustainable water resource management. 相似文献
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Testing the Basic Assumption of the Hydrogeomorphic Approach to AssessingWetland Functions 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Hruby T 《Environmental management》2001,27(5):749-761
The hydrogeomorphic (HGM) approach for developing "rapid" wetland function assessment methods stipulates that the variables used are to be scaled based on data collected at sites judged to be the best at performing the wetland functions (reference standard sites). A critical step in the process is to choose the least altered wetlands in a hydrogeomorphic subclass to use as a reference standard against which other wetlands are compared. The basic assumption made in this approach is that wetlands judged to have had the least human impact have the highest level of sustainable performance for all functions. The levels at which functions are performed in these least altered wetlands are assumed to be "characteristic" for the subclass and "sustainable." Results from data collected in wetlands in the lowlands of western Washington suggest that the assumption may not be appropriate for this region. Teams developing methods for assessing wetland functions did not find that the least altered wetlands in a subclass had a range of performance levels that could be identified as "characteristic" or "sustainable." Forty-four wetlands in four hydrogeomorphic subclasses (two depressional subclasses and two riverine subclasses) were rated by teams of experts on the severity of their human alterations and on the level of performance of 15 wetland functions. An ordinal scale of 1-5 was used to quantify alterations in water regime, soils, vegetation, buffers, and contributing basin. Performance of functions was judged on an ordinal scale of 1-7. Relatively unaltered wetlands were judged to perform individual functions at levels that spanned all of the seven possible ratings in all four subclasses. The basic assumption of the HGM approach, that the least altered wetlands represent "characteristic" and "sustainable" levels of functioning that are different from those found in altered wetlands, was not confirmed. Although the intent of the HGM approach is to use level of functioning as a metric to assess the ecological integrity or "health" of the wetland ecosystem, the metric does not seem to work in western Washington for that purpose. 相似文献
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Hydrogeomorphic Reference Condition and Its Relationship with Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in Southeastern U.S. Sand Hills Streams 下载免费PDF全文
Stephen A. Sefick Ely Kosnicki Michael H. Paller Jack W. Feminella 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2018,54(4):914-933
Defining stream reference conditions is integral to providing benchmarks to ecological perturbation. We quantified channel geometry, hydrologic and environmental variables, and macroinvertebrates in 62 low‐gradient, SE United States (U.S.) Sand Hills (Level IV ecoregion) sand‐bed streams. To identify hydrogeomorphic reference condition (HGM), we clustered channel geometry deviation from expectations given watershed area (Aws), resulting in two HGM groups discriminated by area at the top of bank (Atob) residuals <0.6 m2 and >0.6 m2 predicted to be HGM reference/nonreference streams, respectively. Two independent partial least squares discriminate analyses used (1) hydrologic/environmental variables and (2) macroinvertebrate mean trait values (mT) on 10 reference/nonreference stream pairs of similar Aws for classification validation. Nonreference streams had flashier hydrographs and altered flow magnitudes, lower organic matter, coarser substrate, higher pH/specific conductivity compared with reference streams. Macroinvertebrate assemblages corresponded to HGM groupings, with mT indicative of multivoltinism, collector‐gatherer functional feeding groups, fast current‐preference taxa, and lower Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera richness and biotic integrity in nonreference streams. HGM classifications in Sand Hills, sand‐bed streams were determined from channel geometry. This easily implemented classification is indicative of contemporary hydrologic disturbance resulting in contrasting macroinvertebrate assemblages. 相似文献
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Evaluating cumulative effects of disturbance on the hydrologic function of bogs,fens, and mires 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Donald I. Siegel 《Environmental management》1988,12(5):621-626
Few quantitative studies have been done on the hydrology of fens, bogs, and mires. Consequently predicting the cumulative impacts of disturbances on their hydrologic functions is extremely difficult. For example, few data are available on the role of bogs and fens with respect to flood desynchronization and shoreline anchoring. However, recent studies suggest that very small amounts of groundwater discharge are sufficient to radically modify mire surface-water chemistry, and consequently, vegetation communities and their associated surface-water hydrology. Bogs and fens are, in a sense, hydrobiologic systems, and any evaluation of cumulative impacts will have to (1) consider the complicated and little understood interactions among wetland hydrology, water chemistry, and biota, and (2) place the effect of individual wetland impacts within the context of the cumulative impacts contributed to the watershed from other geomorphic areas and land uses.It is difficult to evaluate the potential cumulative impacts on wetland hydrology because geologic settings of wetlands are often complex and the methods used to measure wetland streamflow, groundwater flow, and evapotranspiration are inexact (Winter 1988). This is especially so for bogs, fens, and mires underlain by thick organic soils. These wetlands, found in the circumboreal areas of North America, Europe, and Asia, are major physiographic features in eastern North America, northern Europe, and Siberia (Kivenen and Pakarinen 1981, Gore 1983, Glaser and Janssens 1986). Their very scale makes it difficult to quantify the hydrologic function accurately. The hydrology of small bogs and fens found elsewhere is just as poorly understood because of conflicting conceptual models of pertinent hydrologic processes.This article (1) reviews our current understanding of the hydrologic function of bogs, fens, and mires at different scales and in different physiographic settings and (2) presents hypotheses on potential cumulative impacts on the hydrologic function that might occur with multiple disturbances. 相似文献
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Ted L. Ernst Nancy C. Leibowitz Denis Roose Steve Stehman N. Scott Urquhart 《Environmental management》1995,19(1):99-113
The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) will monitor the
nation's resources by evaluating the status and trends of selected indicators of condition using a probability-based sampling
design. The EMAP-Wetlands program will monitor the condition of the nation's wetlands. The EMAP classification system is an
aggregation of the many subclasses of the US Fish and Wildlife Service's National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) classification
system. This aggregation results in fewer wetland classes with more wetlands per class than the NWI system. Aggregation of
the NWI classification was based primarily on dominant vegetation cover, flooding regimes, dominant water source, and adjacency
to rivers and lakes. We evaluated the EMAP classification system and sampling design using NWI digital wetlands data for portions
of Illinois, Washington, North Dakota, and South Dakata. Relative numbers of wetlands, total areas, average areas, and common
versus rare classes were compared between the EMAP and NWI classification systems. As expected, the EMAP classification provided
fewer wetland polygons, each with larger areas, without altering total wetland area. Summary statistics comparing sample estimates
to true population parameters (represented by the NWI data) demonstrated the effectiveness of the EMAP sampling design with
the exception of rare EMAP classes in the selected regions. Although simple random sampling is inadequate for both large and
small wetlands, the EMAP sampling design is readily adapted to provide better estimates for these categories. Aggregating
the NWI classification to the EMAP classification provides fewer wetland classes, with more wetlands per class, for EMAP's
annual reports and statistical summaries.
The research in this report has been funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under contracts 68-C8-0006
to ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc. and 68-03-3532 to The Bionetics Corporation. Mention of trade names does not constitute
endorsement or recommendation for use. 相似文献
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Hydrogeomorphic (HGM) functional assessment models were used to assess whether function in created wetlands of two ages (1 year
old and >12 years old) was equivalent to that of natural (reference) mainstem floodplain wetlands. Reference wetlands scored
higher than both created age classes for providing energy dissipation and short-term surface water storage. Reference wetlands scored higher in maintaining native plant community and structure than 1-year-old sites, and 12-year-old wetlands scored higher than reference sites for providing vertebrate habitat structure. Analysis of individual model variables showed that reference wetlands had greater vegetative biomass and higher soil organic
matter content than both created wetland age classes. Created wetlands were farther from natural wetlands and had smaller
mean forest patch sizes within a 1-km-radius circle around the site than did the reference sites, indicating less hydrologic
connectivity. Created wetlands also had less microtopographic variation than reference wetlands. The 1-year-old created sites
were placed in landscape settings with greater land use diversity and road density than reference sites. The 12-year-old sites
had a higher gradient and a higher percentage of their surrounding area in urban land use. These results show that the created
wetlands were significantly structurally different (if not functionally so) from reference wetlands even after 12 years. The
most profound differences were in hydrology and the characteristics of the surrounding landscape. More attention needs to
be focused on placing created wetlands in appropriate settings to encourage proper hydrodynamics, eliminate habitat fragmentation,
and minimize the effects of stressors to the site. 相似文献
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Thomas R. Wentworth George P. Johnson Russell L. Kologiski 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》1988,24(2):389-396
ABSTRACT: Weighted averages (WA) was investigated as a vegetation-based method for wetland designation, to be used in conjunction with the wetland indicator status of plants from Wetland Plants of the United States of America 1986 (Reed, 1986). Ecological indices were assigned to indicator groups and were used to compute weighted averages for quantitative data obtained from four studies of wetland vegetation conducted in various regions of the United States. Weighted averages of vegetation data proved to be a useful tool for assessing wetland status of the vegetation types included in our study: (1) rankings of vegetation stands or types by WA correlated well with their positions on environmental moisture gradients; and (2) the results of WA could be used, together with a wetland/upland break-point, to designate vegetation types as wetland or upland in a way that agreed well, in three of the four studies, with an alternative classification of wetland habitats. The variation of weighted averages among the sampling units representing a vegetation type was generally small relative to the range of ecological indices assigned. However, designations based on weighted average scores close to the break-point should be considered provisional and must be verified with supplementary data on soils and hydrology. 相似文献
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Matthew E. Baker Michael J. Wiley Paul W Seelbach 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2001,37(6):1615-1628
ABSTRACT: Riparian buffers have potential for reducing excess nutrient levels in surface water. Spatial variation in riparian buffer effectiveness is well recognized, yet researchers and managers still lack effective general tools for understanding the relevance of different hydrologic settings. We present several terrain‐based GIS models to predict spatial patterns of shallow, subsurface hydrologic flux and riparian hydrology. We then link predictions of riparian hydrology to patterns of nutrient export in order to demonstrate potential for augmenting the predictive power of land use/land cover (LU/LC) maps. Using predicted hydrology in addition to LUILC, we observed increases in the explained variation of nutrient exports from 290 sites across Lower Michigan. The results suggest that our hydrologic predictions relate more strongly to patterns of nutrient export than the presence or absence of wetland vegetation, and that in fact the influence of vegetative structure largely depends on its hydrologic context. Such GIS models are useful and complimentary tools for exploring the role of hydrologic routing in riparian ecosystem function and stream water quality. Modeling efforts that take a similar GIS approach to material transport might be used to further explore the causal implications of riparian buffers in heterogeneous watersheds. 相似文献
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ABSTRACT: Selected studies from the literature were reviewed to determine the extent of knowledge about the relationship between hydrology and wetland ecosystem studies. Wetland studies of chemical input-output relationships have been the most dependent on hydrologic data of all wetland investigations; yet, very few of these studies have attempted to measure all components of a wetland's water balance. Usually, unmeasured components were calculated as the difference between measured inputs and outputs. Ground water frequently was overlooked. Chemical input-output investigations primarily were concerned with determining the amount of input retained in the wetlands. Few studies also included direct measurement of biogeochemical processes within wetlands of elements that were part of simultaneous input-output investigations. The importance of uncertainties in chemical budgets that are due to uncertainties in hydrologic budgets has been addressed in very few wetland investigations. Although many studies have emphasized the importance of hydrology to wetland ecosystem research, few studies have documented this, so that hydrology remains one of the least understood components of wetland ecosystems. 相似文献
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T. Andrew Earles Kenneth R. Wright Christopher Brown Thomas E. Langan 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2004,40(2):371-384
ABSTRACT: A controlled burn at Bandelier National Monument got out of control and burned about 43,000 acres (17,400 hectares) near Los Alamos, New Mexico, in May 2000. The wildfire caused dramatic changes in infiltration capacity and wettability of soils in many of the watersheds above Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and destroyed the duff layer, dramatically reducing the interception and infiltration capacity of the formerly forested watersheds. These sudden changes in basin hydrology necessitated a rapid assessment of hydrology and hydraulics for the canyons running through LANL property to evaluate flood risk, plan emergency flood protection measures, and assess potential sediment and actinide transport. This paper presents the results of hydrologic and hydraulic modeling of Los Alamos Canyon following the wildfire. The large scale modeling effort, with over 13,000 cross sections for the hydraulic model (5,000 for Los Alamos Canyon, 8,000 for Guaje Canyon), relied heavily on a geographic information system (GIS) for model input and floodplain delineation. The HEC‐geoRAS model provided good integration between the hydraulic model (HEC‐RAS, Version 3.0.1) and the GIS (ArcView, v. 3.3). These modeling results are being used in drainage master planning efforts at LANL and in the development of sediment transport models using HEC‐6T. Sediment transport modeling results will be used to develop actinide transport models for the canyons at LANL. 相似文献
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River Channel Geometry and Rating Curve Estimation Using Height above the Nearest Drainage 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1 下载免费PDF全文
Xing Zheng David G. Tarboton David R. Maidment Yan Y. Liu Paola Passalacqua 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2018,54(4):785-806
River channel geometry is an important input to hydraulic and hydrologic models. Traditional approaches to quantify river geometry have involved surveyed river cross sections, which cannot be extended to ungaged basins. In this paper, we describe a method for developing a synthetic rating curve to relate flow to water level in a stream reach based on reach‐averaged channel geometry properties developed using the Height above Nearest Drainage (HAND) method. HAND uses a digital elevation model (DEM) of the terrain and computes the elevation difference between each land surface cell and the stream bed cell to which it drains. Taking increments in water level in the stream, HAND defines the inundation zone and a water depth grid within this zone, and the channel characteristics are defined from this water depth grid. We apply our method to the Blanco River (Texas) and the Tar River (North Carolina) using 10‐m terrain data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) dataset. We evaluate the method's performance by comparing the reach‐average stage‐river geometry relationships and rating curves to those from calibrated Hydrologic Engineering Center's River Analysis System (HEC‐RAS) models and USGS gage observations. The results demonstrate that after some adjustment, the river geometry information and rating curves derived from HAND using national‐coverage datasets are comparable to those obtained from hydraulic models or gage measurements. We evaluate the inundation extent and show our approach is able to capture the majority of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 100‐year floodplain. 相似文献
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Ecological impacts of water-quality problems have developed in the western United States resulting from the disposal of seleniferous
agricultural wastewater in wetland areas. Overt effects of selenium toxicosis occurred at five areas where deformities of
wild aquatic birds were similar to those first observed at Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in the west-central San Joaquin
Valley of California. These areas are: Tulare Lake Bed Area, California, Middle Green River Basin, Utah, Kendrick Reclamation
Project Area, Wyoming, Sun River Basin, Montana, and Stillwater Wildlife Management Area, Nevada. Potential for ecological
damage is indicated at six more sites in Oregon, Colorado, the Colorado/Kansas border, and South Dakota out of 16 areas in
11 states where biological tissue data were collected. This conclusion is based on the fact that selenium bioaccumulated in
bird livers to median levels that had exceeded or were in the range associated with adverse reproductive effects. Selenium
concentrations in samples of fish and bird eggs support these conclusions at a majority of these areas. Reason for concern
is also given for the lower Colorado River Valley, although this is not exclusively a conclusion from these reconnaissance
data. Biogeochemical conditions and the extent of selenium contamination of water, bottom sediment, and biota from which this
assessment was made are given here. In a companion paper, the biogeochemical pathway postulated for selenium contamination
to take place from natural geologic sources to aquatic wildlife is defined. 相似文献
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GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION OF THE STATISTICAL PARAMETERS OF HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL DATA OF THE UNITED STATES1
Ashok N. Shahane Daniel Thomas Paul Bock 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》1975,11(3):584-598
ABSTRACT: Having determined various statistical parameters for five mean monthly hydrometeorological time series of the United States, directional variation of the autocorrelation numbers, their spatial distribution over the United States and statistical significances are presented in this paper. Two conceptually different approaches (one using directional strips of large combined watersheds and the other with analysis of variances) are employed to explore the geographic variation of the statistical parameters (autocorrelations and explained variances) in question. Results adequately indicate the correspondence between these variations and the observed topographic, climatologic and hydrologic characteristics over the United States. 相似文献
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Md Nowfel M. Bhuyian Chayan Lahiri Timothy H. Diehl Elizabeth N. Heal 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2023,59(4):855-873
Running Reelfoot Bayou (RRB) is the outlet canal of Reelfoot Lake, the largest natural lake in Tennessee. RRB is not able to contain discharge from Reelfoot Lake greater than the bankfull discharge of 28 m3/s (1000 ft3/s), which typically occurs at the beginning of the growing season (April–June). Historically, the planting of crops has been delayed until flooding subsides and cropland has drained. The objective of this study is a preliminary quantification of cropland inundation to determine its spatial distribution in the RRB floodplain. Inundated croplands in the RRB floodplain were delineated over a range of spillway discharges from 2 to 57 m3/s (70–2000 ft3/s), using one-dimensional–two-dimensional hydrodynamic modeling and multispectral satellite images (Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2). The composite maps made by combining the simulated and image-derived flood maps were overlaid on the United States Department of Agriculture CropScape layer to determine the inundation of individual summer crops during the growing season. About 25% of the inundated croplands are flooded at discharges of RRB less than 28 m3/s, implying wetland hydrology. The results of this analysis can be used to inform operational management of the Reelfoot Lake spillway. 相似文献
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Arnold L. O'Brien Ward S. Motts 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》1980,16(5):785-789
ABSTRACT: Wetlands occur in a variety of geologic, hydrologic, and topographic settings and exhibit diverse hydrogeologic characteristics. A wetland is more than an organic mat - it is an element in a larger hydrogeologic system. Three distinct but related effects of wetlands are: modifying the character of runoff from a basin, influencing the discharge/recharge relationship with the underlying aquifer, and effecting the potential for ground water development in a wetland dominated basin. An important goal of wetland research is to define the diverse roles that wetlands play in the regional hydrology and to define the geologic, hydrologic, and topographic factors that will allow meaningful distinctions among wetlands. Geologic and hydrologic factors include character and thickness of surficial materials; bedrock type; hydrologic position; permeability of organic layer; transmissivity, quality, and hydrologic connection of wetland related aquifers; ground water outflow; and depth of standing water. Topographic factors are position in the drainage basin, relative size, and absolute size of wetlands. A wetland classification to aid hydrologists and land use planners is proposed using selected factors involving hydrologic position, topographic position, and geologic type. 相似文献
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Theresa S. Presser 《Environmental management》1994,18(3):437-454
Hypothesized to be derived from Cretaceous marine sedimentary rocks, selenium contamination of the Kesterson National Wildlife
Refuge is traced through irrigation drainage to the source bedrock of the California Coast Ranges. This biogeochemical pathway
of selenium is defined here as the “Kesterson effect.” At the refuge ponds, this effect culminated in 1983 in a 64% rate of
deformity and death of embryos and hatchlings of wild aquatic birds. From the previous companion paper on irrigation drainage,
the Kesterson effect has been implicated in nine of 11 reconnaissance areas studied in the western United States. Deformities
have resulted in at least five of these sites. Climatic, geologic, hydrologic, and soil conditions in these reconnaissance
areas are similar to those in the area surrounding Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in the west-central San Joaquin Valley
of California. In California, selenium, as selenate, was ultimately found weathered with sulfur from marine sources in soluble
sodium and magnesium sulfate salts, which are concentrated by evaporation on farmland soils. The Se, mobilized by irrigation
drainage, is bioaccumulated to toxic levels in refuge wetland ponds that are located mainly in hydrologically closed basins
and thus act as concentrating disposal points. The depositional environment of the ponds may be similar to that of the nutrient-rich
continental shelf edge and slope in which Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene sediments found to be seleniferous in the California
Coast Ranges were deposited. Bioaccumulation may be therefore a primary mechanism of selenium enrichment in ancient sediments
in addition to that of the formerly suggested Cretaceous volcanic pathway. 相似文献