WATERSHED IMPERVIOUSNESS IMPACTS ON STREAM CHANNEL CONDITION IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA1

ABSTRACT: Forty‐six independent stream reaches in southeastern Pennsylvania were surveyed to assess the relationships between geomorphic and habitat variables and watershed total impervious area (TIA) and to test the ability of the impervious cover model (ICM) to predict the impervious category based on stream reach variables. Ten variables were analyzed using simple and multivariate statistical techniques including scatter‐plots, Spearman's Rank correlations, principal components analysis (PCA), and discriminant analysis (DA). Graphical analysis suggested differences in the response to TIA between the stream reaches with less than 13 percent TIA and those with greater than 24 percent TIA. Spearman's Rank correlations showed significant relationships for large woody debris and sinuosity when analyzing the entire dataset and for depth diversity and the standard deviation of maximum pool depths when analyzing stream reaches with greater than 24 percent TIA. Classification into the ICM using DA was 49 percent accurate; however, the stream reaches did support the ICM in other ways. These results indicate that stream reach response to urbanization may not be consistent across geographical regions and that local conditions (specifically riparian buffer vegetation) may significantly affect channel response; and the ICM, used in the appropriate context, can aid in the management of stream reaches and watersheds.     

城市化过程中的土地集约利用途径

城市化过程中土地的集约利用是一个非常重要的课题.通过对我国城市化现状及土地利用存在问题的分析,研究了土地集约利用的途径,指出加快我国城市化进程,从经济结构和产业结构布局的基础上进行城市发展布局和制定土地利用规划,利用土地市场进行土地资源的配置是实现土地集约利用的有效途径.     

县域经济在城市化中的作用及发展思路--以山东省为例

论述了县域经济与中国城市化进程之间的关联性以及加快发展县域经济以促进城市化进程的重要性.以山东省为案例,论证了中国今后要加速城市化进程,其关键之举是着力发展县域经济.     

土地利用变化对地表径流深度影响的模拟研究--以深圳地区为例

结合基于遥感数据获得的土地利用结果与SCS水文模型,在GIS环境下模拟了深圳地区城市化不同阶段土地利用变化对地表径流深度的影响.结果表明:在深圳城市化的不同阶段,由土地利用变化所引起的地表径流深度的变化亦有所不同.在假设24h降水200mm的情景下,1980至1988年间,深圳地区城市化使其扩张地区的地表径流深度减少了0.33mm,而在1988至1994年和1994至2000年这两个阶段,城市化则使其扩张地区的地表径流深度分别增加了6.96mm和0.69mm.     

STREAM HEALTH RANKINGS PREDICTED BY SATELLITE DERIVED LAND COVER METRICS1

ABSTRACT: Land cover and land use change have long been known to influence the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of streams. This study makes use of land cover maps derived from fine resolution satellite imagery and an extensive stream quality dataset to determine the relationship between small watershed health rankings and land cover composition and configuration. Landscape metrics were derived from digital impervious surface area (ISA), tree cover (percent), and agricultural crop maps within Montgomery County, Maryland. Watershed rankings were developed by state and county collaborators (MD‐DNR and MCDEP) using extensive biological and chemical measurements. In stepwise logistic regression models the factors accounting for the most variation in stream health ranking were the percent ISA, followed by the percent of tree cover. Riparian buffer zone tree cover was also a significant predictor. Of the metrics that considered the spatial configuration of the landscape, a contagion index and the percent of ISA in the flow path from the ISA to the stream were also found to be significant predictors of stream health. Despite limited ability to characterize landscape configuration or narrow riparian buffer zone vegetation with coarser resolution imagery (from Landsat), model results were not significantly different from those based on the use of fine‐resolution ISA information, suggesting that broader area applications of the approach are possible. The results indicate that management practices designed to improve stream water quality should focus on the amount of ISA and tree cover in both the watershed and within the buffer zone.     

IMPACTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CLIMATIC REGIMES AND COASTAL LAND USE CHANGE ON STREAMFLOW CHARACTERISTICS1

ABSTRACT: To investigate the impacts of urbanization and climatic fluctuations on stream flow magnitude and variability in a Mediterranean climate, the HEC‐HMS rainfall/runoff model is used to simulate stream flow for a 14‐year period (October 1, 1988, to September 30, 2002) in the Atascadero Creek watershed located along the southern coast of California for 1929, 1998, and 2050 (estimated) land use conditions (8, 38 and 52 percent urban, respectively). The 14‐year period experienced a range of climatic conditions caused mainly by El Nino‐Southern Oscillation variations. A geographic information system is used to delineate the watershed and parameterize the model, which is calibrated using data from two stream flow and eight rainfall gauges. Urbanization is shown to increase peak discharges and runoff volume while decreasing stream flow variability. In all cases, the annual and 14‐year distributions of stream flow are shown to be highly skewed, with the annual maximum 24 hours of discharge accounting for 22 to 52 percent of the annual runoff and the maximum ten days of discharge from an average El Nino year producing 10 to 15 percent of the total 14‐year discharge. For the entire period of urbanization (1929 to 2050), the average increase in annual maximum discharges and runoff was 45 m³/s (300 percent) and 15 cm (350 percent), respectively. Additionally, the projected increase in urbanization from 1998 to 2050 is half the increase from 1929 to 1998; however, increases in runoff (22 m³/s and 7 cm) are similar for both scenarios because of the region's spatial development pattern.     

IMPACTS OF URBANIZATION ON NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS IN SMALL SOUTHEASTERN COASTAL STREAMS1

ABSTRACT: Coastal watersheds in the southeastern United States are rapidly changing due to population growth and attendant increases in residential development, industry, and tourism related commerce. This research examined spatial and temporal patterns of nutrient concentrations in streams from 10 small watersheds (< 4 km²) that drain into Murrells Inlet (impacted) and North Inlet (pristine), two high salinity estuaries along the South Carolina coast. Monthly grab samples were collected during baseflow during 1999 and analyzed for total and dissolved inorganic and organic forms of nitrogen and phosphorus. Data were grouped into forested wetland creeks (representing predevelopment reference sites), urban creeks, and urban ponds. DON and NH4 concentrations were greater in forested streams than in urban streams. NO3 and TP concentrations were greatest in urban streams. Seasonally, concentrations were highest during summer for TN, NH4, DON, and TP, while NO3 concentrations were greatest during winter. Nutrient ratios clearly highlighted the reduction in organic nitrogen due to coastal development. Multiple regression models to predict instream nutrient concentrations from land use in Murrells Inlet suggest that effects are not significant (small r²). The findings indicate that broad land use/land cover classes cannot be used to predict nutrient concentrations in streams in the very small watersheds in our study areas.     

基于元素流分析的长江经济带总磷污染减量化研究——以湖北为例

本文运用元素流分析方法,解析了长江经济带社会经济系统磷代谢的主要过程,构建了磷代谢分析框架及磷流核算模型,并以湖北为例,审视了其磷代谢过程及规律,定量识别了水体磷负荷的主要来源,力图提出减少长江经济带总磷污染的相关建议与对策。结果表明:(1)湖北长江经济带磷代谢系统整体结构不协调,呈现典型的单向型;(2)随着矿物磷—植物磷—动物磷的转换,重要工业化生产性子系统(磷化工、农业种植、规模养殖)磷的物质生产率逐渐退化,污染排放率、废物累积率、养分循环率则次第升高,城镇居民对总磷污染的贡献度要远超农村居民;(3)规模养殖、农业种植、磷化工、城镇居民生活是湖北长江经济带水体总磷污染的主要来源。     

广东省城镇化与生态环境耦合协调的空间特征及影响因素研究

为研究广东省快速城镇化与生态环境系统的相互影响关系,本文应用耦合协调度模型、地理探测器等方法对1995年、2005年、2016年广东省城镇化与生态环境耦合协调度及影响因素进行了分析。研究表明:①以广东省为研究区,1995—2016年广东省城镇化与生态环境耦合协调度呈持续上升趋势,整体呈S型曲线,经历了严重失调—中度协调—优质协调和城镇化滞后—相对平衡—生态环境滞后的过程。②以21个地级市为研究区,1995—2016年各地级市城镇化与生态环境耦合协调度持续提高,属优质和良好协调型的区域以珠海、深圳为核心逐步向外围扩展,表现出明显的核心—边缘特征。③生态环保政策、土地开发强度是不同时期影响21个地级市城市化与生态环境耦合协调度的共性因素。同时,2005年以前,产业结构及人口和GDP的快速增长是主要的影响因素;2005年以后,人口高度集聚、土地快速开发、科技和技术创新等因素则发挥着更重要的作用。     

FOREST COVER,IMPERVIOUS‐SURFACE AREA,AND THE MITIGATION OF STORMWATER IMPACTS1

ABSTRACT: For 20 years, King County, Washington, has implemented progressively more demanding structural and nonstructural strategies in an attempt to protect aquatic resources and declining salmon populations from the cumulative effects of urbanization. This history holds lessons for planners, engineers, and resource managers throughout other urbanizing regions. Detention ponds, even with increasingly restrictive designs, have still proven inadequate to prevent channel erosion. Costly structural retrofits of urbanized watersheds can mitigate certain problems, such as flooding or erosion, but cannot restore the predevelopment flow regime or habitat conditions. Widespread conversion of forest to pasture or grass in rural areas, generally unregulated by most jurisdictions, degrades aquatic systems even when watershed imperviousness remains low. Preservation of aquatic resources in developing areas will require integrated mitigation, which must including impervious‐surface limits, forest‐retention policies, stormwater detention, riparian‐buffer maintenance, and protection of wetlands and unstable slopes. New management goals are needed for those watersheds whose existing development precludes significant ecosystem recovery; the same goals cannot be achieved in both developed and undeveloped watersheds.