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C. A. Troendle 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》1983,19(3):359-373
With the exception of the Sierra-Cascade mountain ranges, the Rocky Mountain chain is the only portion of the western United States that consistently yields more than 3 cm of flow annually. Ten to 15 percent of the land mass in the region produces the majority of the total flow. This paper addresses the opportunities for increasing flow through forest manipulation, and summarizes the research base that has yielded the current “state of the art” understanding of how snow pack and vegetation management can influence water yield. The optimal harvest design appears to consist of small openings, irregularly shaped, and about 3 to 8 tree heights in width parallel to the wind. 相似文献
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Minna Hares 《Environmental management》2009,43(3):381-395
This paper aims at exploring the local background of and solutions to the forest conflict in upland areas inhabited by ethnic
minorities, who are called hill tribes, in northern Thailand. A so-called hill tribe problem has been officially identified
as a result of the slash-and-burn cultivation and other perceived problems, such as opium poppy cultivation, illegal immigration,
and the suspicion of disloyalty to the state. This has created distrust and tension between the groups and authorities. The
local conflict has recently been related to the dilemma of conserving the forest from all human interference, while many people
live and make their livelihood within and adjacent to the protected areas. Furthermore, as the results imply, strictly protected
areas and reforestation have also increased the competition over land and natural resources and, thereby, the likelihood of
local conflicts. The scarcity and pollution of water, illegal logging, and poor fire control have contributed to the conflicts
between local communities. The conflicts between the local communities and officials have been nourished by political and
public discussions. Using definitions and terms with negative connotations and ignoring the heterogeneity between the groups
or labeling some groups as malevolent have increased distrust and strengthened existing stereotypical images. Conflict resolution
starts with efforts toward better mutual understanding, and changes in structures and attitudes are necessary. Local cooperation,
utilization of traditional methods, and local institutions are central to conflict solving. 相似文献
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Donald W. Meals Lenore F Budd 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》1998,34(2):251-265
ABSTRACT: Existing land use data were used to estimate nonpoint source phosphorus loads to Lake Champlain (Vermont/New York/Quebec) in a loading function model that combined P concentration coefficients with regional hydrologic data. The estimates were verified against monitored loading data, then used to assess the relative magnitudes of contributions from major land uses and regions of the Lake Champlain Basin. The Basin is comprised of 62 percent forest, 28 percent agricultural land, 3 percent urban land, and 7 percent water. The best-fit model estimated an annual total P load of 457 mt/year, which did not differ significantly from the 458 metric tons/year measured for an average hydrologic year, and accurately predicted loads from major tributaries. Agriculture contributes 66 percent of the annual nonpoint source P load to Lake Champlain; urban and forest land contribute 18 percent and 16 percent, respectively. Because agricultural land contributes most nonpoint source P to Lake Champlain, load reduction effort must deal with agricultural sources. However, because the urban 3 percent of the basin contributes 18 percent of the estimated load, high load reduction efficiencies might be achieved by addressing urban sources. This assessment clearly demonstrated the relationship between land use and P loads in the Lake Champlain Basin, a prerequisite for policy-makers to endorse a P management strategy requiring changes in land use and management. 相似文献
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Yanhui Wang Pengtao Yu Wei Xiong Zhenxi Shen Mingchun Guo Zhongjie Shi Apeng Du Liangmin Wang 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2008,44(5):1086-1097
Abstract: The increase of coverage of forest/vegetation is imperative to improve the environment in dry‐land areas of China, especially for protecting soil against serious erosion and sandstorms. However, inherent severe water shortages, drought stresses, and increasing water use competition greatly restrict the reforestation. Notably, the water‐yield reduction after afforestation generates intense debate about the correct approach to afforestation and forest management in dry‐land areas. However, most studies on water‐yield reduction of forests have been at catchment scales, and there are few studies of the response of total evapotranspiration (ET) and its partitioning to vegetation structure change. This motivates us to learn the linkage between hydrological processes and vegetation structure in slope ecosystems. Therefore, an ecohydrological study was carried out by measuring the individual items of water balance on sloping plots covered by different vegetation types in the semiarid Liupan Mountains of northwest China. The ratio of precipitation consumed as ET was about 60% for grassland, 93% for shrubs, and >95% for forestland. Thus, the water yield was very low, site‐specific, and sensitive to vegetation change. Conversion of grassland to forest decreased the annual water yield from slope by 50‐100 mm. In certain periods, the plantations at lower slopes even consumed the runon from upper slopes. Reducing the density of forests and shrubs by thinning was not an efficient approach to minimize water use. Leaf area index was a better indicator than plant density to relate ET to vegetation structure and to evaluate the soil water carrying capacity for vegetation (i.e., the maximum amount of vegetation that can be supported by the available soil water for an extended time). Selecting proper vegetation types and plant species, based on site soil water condition, may be more effective than the forest density regulation to minimize water‐yield reduction by vegetation coverage increase and notably by reforestation. Finally, the focuses in future research to improve the forest‐water relations in dry‐land areas are recommended as follows: vegetation growth dynamics driven by environment especially water conditions, coupling of ecological and hydrological processes, further development of distributed ecohydrological models, quantitative relation of eco‐water quota of ecosystems with vegetation structures, multi‐scaled evaluation of soil water carrying capacity for vegetation, and the development of widely applicable decision support tools. 相似文献
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Land-cover change in upper Barataria Basin estuary,Louisiana, 1972-1992: increases in Wetland area 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The Barataria Basin, Louisiana, USA, is an extensive wetland and coastal estuary system of great economic and intrinsic value.
Although high rates of wetland loss along the coastal margin of the Barataria Basin have been well documented, little information
exists on whether freshwater wetlands in the upper basin have changed. Our objectives were to quantify land-cover change in
the upper basin over 20 years from 1972–1992 and to determine land-cover transition rates among land-cover types. Using 80-m
resolution Landsat MSS data from the North American Landscape Characterization (NALC) data archive, we classified images from
three time steps (1972, 1985, 1992) into six land-cover types: agriculture, urban, bottomland hardwood forest, swamp forest,
freshwater marsh, and open water. Significant changes in land cover occurred within the upper Barataria Basin over the study
period. Urban land increased from 8% to 17% of the total upper basin area, primarily due to conversions from agricultural
land, and to a lesser degree, bottomland forest. Swamp forest increased from 30% to 41%, associated with conversions from
bottomland hardwood forest and freshwater marsh. Overall, bottomland forest decreased 38% and total wetland area increased
21%. Within the upper Barataria, increases in total wetland area may be due to land subsidence. Based on our results, if present
trends in the reduction of bottomland forest land cover were to continue, the upper Barataria Basin may have no bottomland
hardwood forests left by the year 2025, as it is subjected to multiple stressors both in the higher elevations (from urbanization)
and lower elevations (most likely from land subsidence). These results suggest that changes in the upper freshwater portions
of coastal estuaries can be large and quite different from patterns observed in the more saline coastal margins. 相似文献
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Info-Gap Decision Theory for Assessing the Management of Catchments for Timber Production and Urban Water Supply 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
While previous studies have examined how forest management is influenced by the risk of fire, they rely on probabilistic estimates
of the occurrence and impacts of fire. However, nonprobabilistic approaches are required for assessing the importance of fire
risk when data are poor but risks are appreciable. We explore impacts of fire risk on forest management using as a case study
a water catchment in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) (southeastern Australia). In this forested area, urban water supply
and timber yields from exotic plantations are potential joint but also competing land uses. Our analyses were stimulated by
extensive wildfires in early 2003 that burned much of the existing exotic pine plantation estate in the water catchment and
the resulting need to explore the relative economic benefits of revegetating the catchment with exotic plantations or native
vegetation. The current mean fire interval in the ACT is approximately 40 years, making the establishment of a pine plantation
economically marginal at a 4% discount rate. However, the relative impact on water yield of revegetation with native species
and pines is very uncertain, as is the risk of fire under climate change. We use info-gap decision theory to account for these
nonprobabilistic sources of uncertainty, demonstrating that the decision that is most robust to uncertainty is highly sensitive
to the cost of native revegetation. If costs of native revegetation are sufficiently small, this option is more robust to
uncertainty than revegetation with a commercial pine plantation. 相似文献
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Jun Tu 《Environmental management》2013,51(1):1-17
A spatial statistical technique, Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) is applied to study the spatial variations in the relationships between four land use indicators, including percentages of urban land, forest, agricultural land, and wetland, and eight water quality indicators including specific conductance (SC), dissolved oxygen, dissolved nutrients, and dissolved organic carbon, in the watersheds of northern Georgia, USA. The results show that GWR has better model performance than ordinary least squares regression (OLS) to analyze the relationships between land use and water quality. There are great spatial variations in the relationships affected by the urbanization level of watersheds. The relationships between urban land and SC are stronger in less-urbanized watersheds, while those between urban land and dissolved nutrients are stronger in highly-urbanized watersheds. Percentage of forest is an indicator of good water quality. Agricultural land is usually associated with good water quality in highly-urbanized watersheds, but might be related to water pollution in less-urbanized watersheds. This study confirms the results obtained from a similar study in eastern Massachusetts, and so suggest that GWR technique is a very useful tool in water environmental research and also has the potential to be applied to other fields of environmental studies and management in other regions. 相似文献
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Anthropogenic carbon dioxide balancing can be evaluated by counting the amount of emissions and the sinks that absorb and release carbon. Local level planning can affect the emission-sinks balance. However when trying to meet international goals, it seems that local government mainly considers emission reduction and not sink losses. This paper investigates the implications of using carbon dioxide emissions and forest ecosystems as sinks in Swedish municipal planning. The results demonstrate how emission reduction can be offset by the losses in sinks derived by land use and transportation planning. This moves local government further away from achieving the national emission reduction goal. The results also show a potential for carbon trading between municipalities. 相似文献
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Guillaume Lestrelin Olga Vigiak Aurélie Pelletreau Bounmy Keohavong Christian Valentin 《Natural resources forum》2012,36(2):63-75
The official environmental discourse in Laos describes a “chain of degradation” stretching from upland shifting cultivation, increased runoff and soil erosion to the siltation of wetlands and reservoirs. This perspective has had wide‐ranging impacts on rural development policy which, in the uplands, has long favoured forest conservation over agriculture. Integrating soil erosion and water sediment data with local perceptions of land degradation in an upland village of northern Laos, this study tests the validity of the official environmental discourse. Biophysical measurements made in a small agricultural catchment indicate a significant correlation between the spatial extent of cultivation and soil erosion rates. However, sediment yields recorded at the outlet of the catchment highlight relatively low levels of off‐site sediment exportation. Furthermore, farmers' perceptions suggest that local land degradation issues and crop yield declines could be less related to soil erosion than to agricultural land shortage, increased weed competition, and fertility losses resulting from the intensification of shifting cultivation. The study concludes that a better understanding and management of land degradation issues can be achieved by developing more inclusive and scientifically‐informed approaches to environmental perceptions and narratives. 相似文献
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Nathan H. Rahe Karl W.J. Williard Jon E. Schoonover 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2015,51(4):898-909
Ecosystem processes such as water infiltration and denitrification largely determine how riparian buffers function to protect surface water quality. Reclaimed mine areas offer a unique opportunity to study the restoration of riparian function without the confounding influence of past land use. Between 1980 and 2000 in southern Illinois, agricultural fields with forest buffers were established along three restored stream reaches in reclaimed mine land. Our research objective was to compare common indicators of soil quality (infiltration, soil C and N, bulk density, and soil moisture) between forest and cultivated riparian zones to determine if riparian function was being restored. Soil bulk density was significantly lower in the forest buffers compared to the agricultural fields. The forest buffers had greater soil total C, total N, and moisture levels than agricultural fields likely due to greater organic matter inputs. Soil total C and N levels in forest buffers were positively related to age of restoration, indicating soil quality is gradually being restored in the buffers. Restoration success of riparian buffers should not be estimated by the return of structure alone; it also includes reestablishment of functions such as nutrient cycling and water retention that largely determine water quality benefits. Watershed planning efforts can expect a lag time on the order of decades between riparian restoration activities and surface water quality improvement. 相似文献
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Nonpoint Source Pollution Responses Simulation for Conversion Cropland to Forest in Mountains by SWAT in China 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Several environmental protection policies have been implemented to prevent soil erosion and nonpoint source (NPS) pollutions
in China. After severe Yangtze River floods, the “conversion cropland to forest policy” (CCFP) was carried out throughout
China, especially in the middle and upper reaches of Yangtze River. The research area of the current study is located in Bazhong
City, Sichuan Province in Yangtze River watershed, where soil erosion and NPS pollution are serious concerns. Major NPS pollutants
include nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). The objective of this study is to evaluate the long-term impact of implementation
of the CCFP on stream flow, sediment yields, and the main NPS pollutant loading at watershed level. The Soil and Water Assessment
Tool (SWAT) is a watershed environmental model and is applied here to simulate and quantify the impacts. Four scenarios are
constructed representing different patterns of conversion from cropland to forest under various conditions set by the CCFP.
Scenario A represented the baseline, i.e., the cropland and forest area conditions before the implementation of CCFP. Scenario
B represents the condition under which all hillside cropland with slope larger than 25° was converted into forest. In scenario
C and D, hillside cropland with slope larger than 15° and 7.5° was substituted by forest, respectively. Under the various
scenarios, the NPS pollution reduction due to CCFP implementation from 1996–2005 is estimated by SWAT. The results are presented
as percentage change of water flow, sediment, organic N, and organic P at watershed level. Furthermore, a regression analysis
is conducted between forest area ratio and ten years’ average NPS load estimations, which confirmed the benefits of implementing
CCFP in reducing nonpoint source pollution by increasing forest area in mountainous areas. The reduction of organic N and
organic P is significant (decrease 42.1% and 62.7%, respectively) at watershed level. In addition, this study also proves
that SWAT modeling approach can be used to estimate NPS pollutants’ impacts of land use conversions in large watershed. 相似文献
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Richard C. Kattelmann Neil H. Berg John Rector 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》1983,19(3):395-402
The Sierra Nevada produces over 50 percent of California's water. Improvement of water yields from the Sierra Nevada through watershed management has long been suggested as a means of augmenting the state's water supply. Vegetation and snowpack management can increase runoff from small watersheds by reducing losses due to evapotranspiration, snow interception by canopy, and snow evaporation. Small clearcuts or group selection cuts creating openings less than half a hectare, with the narrow dimension from south to north, appear to be ideal for both increasing and delaying water delivery in the red fir-lodgepole pine and mixed-conifer types of the Sierra west slope. Such openings can have up to 40 percent more snow-water equivalent than does uncut forest. However, the water yield increase drops to 1/2-2 percent of current yield for an entire management unit, due to the small number of openings that can be cut at one time, physical and management constraints, and multiple use/sustained yield guidelines. As a rough forecast, water production from National Forest land in the Sierra Nevada can probably be increased by about 1 percent (0.6 cm) under intensive forest watershed management. Given the state of reservoir storage and water use in California, delaying streamflow is perhaps the greatest contribution watershed management can make to meeting future water demands. 相似文献
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Forests and competing land uses in Kenya 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Indigenous forests in Kenya, as in other developing countries, are under heavy pressure from competing agricultural land uses and from unsustainable cutting. The problem in Kenya is compounded by high population growth rates and an agriculturally based economy, which, even with efforts to control birth rates and industrialize, will persist into the next century. Both ecological and economic consequences of these pressures need to be considered in land-use decision making for land and forest management to be effective. This paper presents one way to combine ecological and economic considerations. The status of principal forest areas in Kenya is summarized and competing land uses compared on the basis of ecological functions and economic analysis. Replacement uses do not match the ecological functions of forest, although established stands of tree crops (forest plantations, fuel wood, tea) can have roughly comparable effects on soil and water resources. Indigenous forests have high, although difficult to estimate, economic benefits from tourism and protection of downstream agricultural productivity. Economic returns from competing land uses range widely, with tea having the highest and fuel wood plantations having returns comparable to some annual crops and dairying. Consideration of ecological and economic factors together suggests some trade-offs for improving land allocation decisions and several management opportunities for increasing benefits or reducing costs from particular land uses. The evaluation also suggests a general strategy for forest land management in Kenya.The views and interpretations expressed in this article are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the World Bank, its affiliated organizations, or any individual acting on their behalf. 相似文献
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Alberto L. Teixido Luis G. Quintanilla Francisco Carreño David Gutiérrez 《Journal of environmental management》2010,91(4):879-886
Changes in forested landscapes may have important consequences for ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. In northern Spain, major changes in land use occurred during the second half of the 20th century, but their impacts on forests have not been quantified. We evaluated the dynamics of landscape and forest distribution patterns between 1957 and 2003 in Fragas do Eume Natural Park (northwestern Spain). We used orthoimages and a set of standard landscape metrics to determine transitions between land cover classes and to examine forest distribution patterns. Eucalypt plantations showed the greatest increase in area (197%) over time. Furthermore, transitions to eucalypt plantations were found in all major land cover classes. Forest showed a net decline of 20% in total area and represented 30% of the landscape area in 2003. Forest losses were mainly due to eucalypt plantations and the building of a water reservoir, while forest gains were due to increases in shrubland, meadows and cultivated fields which had been recolonised. Forest patch size and core area decreased, and edge length increased over time. In turn, increases were obtained in mean distance between forest patches, and in adjacency to eucalypt plantations and to a water reservoir. These results suggest an increase in forest fragmentation from 1957 to 2003, as well as a change in the nature of the habitat surrounding forest patches. This study shows that land use changes, mostly from eucalypt plantation intensification, negatively affected forested habitats, although some regeneration was ongoing through ecological succession from land abandonment. 相似文献
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Kathleen Sullivan 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》1985,21(6):977-987
The cumulative effects of forest management activities on water quality at a downstream point were monitored from 1972-1980 during development of a watershed for timber resources. Suspended sediment concentration and turbidity were measured at two hydrologic stations which bracketed a 10-km reach of the Middle Santiam River in the Western Cascades of Oregon as it flowed through an 8000-ha block of intensively managed forest land. Slope failures often accompany road building and harvesting in steep forested watersheds and pose the most serious threat to water quality. Although 180 km of road were constructed and 3400 ha of old-growth forests were harvested from slopes averaging over 60 percent, long-term changes in sediment yields remained undetectable during the period of measurement. The geologic characteristics of the basin and the road construction and maintenance techniques as prescribed by Oregon's forest practice regulations helped to minimize the occurrence of slope failures so that long-term changes in suspended sediment export rates did not occur. Throughout the nine-year measurement period, seven slope failures which added sediment directly to streams produced measurable short-term responses at the downstream sampling location, but these erosion events were too small and too infrequent to produce long-term changes in sediment yield from the watershed. 相似文献
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The Central Himalayan region is suffering from severe ecological problems as a consequence of deforestation and that threatens
the subsistence population of the region. We analyze this problem and propose a plan for ecologically sustainable development
for the region based on an analysis of the interrelationships of various ecosystems, particularly cropland and forest ecosystems,
around which most human activities are concentrated. Each energy unit of agronomic yield leads to expenditure of about 12
energy units of forest/grazing land energy. Because with rapidly declining forest area, this form of agriculture is no longer
sustainable and cannot be converted into a fossil fuel-based agriculture, we propose that agriculture in the mountain region
has to be largely replaced with farm forests to revitalize the environment and to generate the basic needs of the subsistence
economy of the hill population whose food grain needs can be met from the plains. We conclude by describing the advantages
that are likely to accrue to the people for their long-term future. In terms of both energy and money, the value of resources
collected from the forest to support agriculture in the present systems far exceeds the value of food grain that would be
required to enable the proposed farm forest-based systems to function. At regional level, the proposed system would generate
more energy than the existing systems, not only because the productivity of forest is about tenfold greater than that of cropland,
but also because the proposed plan promotes recovery of various ecosystems. 相似文献