Healthy watersheds provide valuable services to society, including the supply and purification of fresh water. Because these natural ecosystem services lie outside the traditional domain of commercial markets, they are undervalued and underprotected. With population and development pressures leading to the rapid modification of watershed lands, valuable hydrological services are being lost, which poses risks to the quality and cost of drinking water and the reliability of water supplies. Increasing the scale and scope of programmes to protect hydrological services requires policies that harmonize land uses in watersheds with the provision of these important natural services. This article summarizes key attributes of hydrological services and their economic benefits; presents a spectrum of institutional mechanisms for safeguarding those services; discusses programmes in Quito (Ecuador), Costa Rica and New York City; and offers some lessons learned and recommendations for achieving higher levels of watershed protection. 相似文献
This paper describes the conception and construction of a geographic information system (GIS) for use in modelling changes
in soil organic carbon stocks in European Russia. A GIS of croplands for European Russia was constructed to allow the RothC
and CANDY models, and a statistical model of humus balance, to estimate how soil carbon stocks change in time. The soil map
of Russia, the database of soil properties, the map of administrative division, the land use map, the climatic grid, the map
of natural and agricultural zoning and an economic database serve as a basis for this system. A map and database of homogeneous
units, for maximum accuracy and minimum uncertainty, was created. Homogeneous characteristics are the parameters required
for modelling. In the course of this work, the sources of errors in the database and the possible ways of improving calculation
accuracy were determined and are described. The methods used and decisions taken in constructing this database are applicable
to other studies in which GIS databases need to be constructing from disparate sources. 相似文献
Abstract: Many of the hydrologic methods that are used in engineering practice today resulted from the Spring Flood of 1936, which blanketed the Northeastern portion of the United States. Because of the flood damage that was caused by this rainfall‐snowmelt event, many federal agencies including the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) implemented the hydrologic theories that were available in the literature at this time and developed hydrologic procedures for design flow estimation. Sherman had recently published his unit hydrograph theory in 1932, and later in 1938 Snyder, who had been charged by the Water Resource Council to develop a synthetic unit hydrograph, published his famous paper. The SCS unit hydrograph theory was developed by Victor Mockus in the late 1950s. Most if not all of the theories at that time reported the rainfall‐runoff process for floods as a surface phenomenon, and as such those theories all required some type of a timing parameter to estimate watershed response time. This article documents the development of the SCS lag equation. 相似文献
In order to test the hypothesis of aluminium toxicity induced by acid deposition, an experimental acid irrigation was carried out in a mature Norway spruce stand in Southern Germany (Höglwald). The experiment comprised three plots: no irrigation, irrigation (170 mm a?1), and acid irrigation with diluted sulphuric acid (pH of 2.6–2.8). During the seven years of acid irrigation (1984–1990) water containing 0.43 molc m?2 a?1 of protons and sulphate was added with a mean pH of 3.2 (throughfall?+?acid irrigation water) compared to 4.9 (throughfall) on both control plots. Most of the additional proton input was consumed in the organic layer and the upper mineral soil. Acid irrigation resulted in a long lasting elevation of sulphate concentrations in the seepage water. Together with sulphate both aluminium and appreciable amounts of base cations were leached from the main rooting zone. The ratio between base cations (Ca?+?Mg?+?K) and aluminium was 0.79 during acid irrigation and 0.92 on the control. Neither tree growth and nutrition nor the pool of exchangeable cations were affected significantly. We conclude that at this site protection mechanisms against aluminium toxicity exist and that additional base cation runoff can still be compensated without further reduction of the supply of exchangeable base cations in the upper mineral soil. 相似文献
Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis has gained great importance in the study of soil microbial community structure. This structure can give indication of the soil status. Purpose of the present paper is to analyse PLFA patterns in altered agricultural soils in order to develop a soil status alteration index. Soils subjected either to intensive agricultural exploitation, or to overflow by municipal and industrial wastes, or to irrigation with saline waters were analysed for PLFA content and compared to adjacent untreated soils by means of different statistical techniques.
Principal component analysis separated PLFAs in three groups: unsaturated PLFAs (first axis, 48% of total variance), monounsaturated and cyclopropane PLFAs (second axis, 28% of total variance) and polyunsaturated PLFAs (third axis, 24% of total variance).
By means of canonical discriminant analysis, a soil alteration index (SAI) was produced from 15 PLFAs using two data sets. A third data set was used to test the SAI general validity together with other data sets reported in literature. The index validity was confirmed in most cases: SAI gave higher scores for control soils and was generally able to classify soils according to their reported degree of alteration. 相似文献
The optimum middle-phase microemulsion used for remediation of oily contaminated soils is often obtained by mixing a certain
amount of a surfactant/alcohol mixture with oil and adjusting the salinity concentrations at a constant water–oil ratio. Upon
introduction to the subsurface, however, the system may not be in the optimum state throughout the remediation process owing
to the change in the water–oil ratio. This research has attempted to investigate the effect of the water–oil ratio on the
phase behavior of systems containing brine, anionic surfactant, alcohols, and different oils. By systematically changing the
water–oil ratio, while keeping the others variables constant, the systems exhibited different phase behavior. The results
revealed that the effect of the water–oil ratio on system behavior was significant, and analogous to that of salinity. Increasing
the water–oil ratio led the system change from winsor I → winsor III → winsor II. The greater the water–oil ratio the lower
the salinity required to produce the middle-phase microemulsion, but the narrower the salinity range of the three-phase region.
An empirical correlation has been developed in order to predict the changes in phase behavior with the changes in water–oil
ratio. This provides a useful tool for designing optimum formulations suitable for soil remediation.
Received: October 5, 1999 / Accepted: March 27, 2000 相似文献