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Lee Benda Marwan A. Hassan Michael Church Christine L. May 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2005,41(4):835-851
Headwater streams comprise 60 to 80 percent of the cumulative length of river networks. In hilly to mountainous terrain, they reflect a mix of hillslope and channel processes because of their close proximity to sediment source areas. Their morphology is an assemblage of residual soils, landslide deposits, wood, boulders, thin patches of poorly sorted alluvium, and stretches of bedrock. Longitudinal profiles of these channels are strongly influenced by steps created by sediment deposits, large wood, and boulders. Due to the combination of small drainage area, stepped shallow gradient, large roughness elements, and cohesive sediments, headwater streams typically transport little sediment or coarse wood debris by fluvial processes. Consequently, headwaters act as sediment reservoirs for periods spanning decades to centuries. The accumulated sediment and wood may be episodically evacuated by debris flows, debris floods, or gully erosion and transported to larger channels. In mountain environments, these processes deliver significant amounts of materials that form riverine habitats in larger channels. In managed steepland forests, accelerated rates of landslides and debris flows resulting from the harvest of headwater forests have the potential to seriously impact the morphology of headwater streams and downstream resources. 相似文献
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Bryant RB Buda AR Kleinman PJ Church CD Saporito LS Folmar GJ Bose S Allen AL 《Journal of environmental quality》2012,41(3):664-671
High levels of accumulated phosphorus (P) in soils of the Delmarva Peninsula are a major source of dissolved P entering drainage ditches that empty into the Chesapeake Bay. The objective of this study was to design, construct, and monitor a within-ditch filter to remove dissolved P, thereby protecting receiving waters against P losses from upstream areas. In April 2007, 110 Mg of flue gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum, a low-cost coal combustion product, was used as the reactive ingredient in a ditch filter. The ditch filter was monitored from 2007 to 2010, during which time 29 storm-induced flow events were characterized. For storm-induced flow, the event mean concentration efficiency for total dissolved P (TDP) removal for water passing through the gypsum bed was 73 ± 27% confidence interval (α = 0.05). The removal efficiency for storm-induced flow by the summation of load method was 65 ± 27% confidence interval (α = 0.05). Although chemically effective, the maximum observed hydraulic conductivity of FGD gypsum was 4 L s(-1), but it decreased over time to <1 L s(-1). When bypass flow and base flow were taken into consideration, the ditch filter removed approximately 22% of the TDP load over the 3.6-yr monitoring period. Due to maintenance and clean-out requirements, we conclude that ditch filtration using FGD gypsum is not practical at a farm scale. However, we propose an alternate design consisting of FGD gypsum-filled trenches parallel to the ditch to intercept and treat groundwater before it enters the ditch. 相似文献
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Barry P. Rochelle M. Robbins Church Warren A. Gebert David J. Graczyk William R. Krug 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》1988,24(1):35-41
ABSTRACT: As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's effort to determine the long-term effects of acidic deposition on surface water chemistry, annual runoff was estimated for about 1000 ungaged sites in the eastern U.S. using runoff contour maps. One concern in using contour maps was that a bias may be introduced in the runoff estimates due to the size of the 1000 ungaged sites relative to the size of the watersheds used in developing the maps. To determine if a bias was present the relationship between the annual runoff (expressed as depth) and the watershed area for the Northeast (NE) and Southern Blue Ridge Province (SBRP) was tested using five regional data bases. One short-term data base (1984 Water Year, n = 531) and two long-term data bases (1940–57, n = 134 and 1951–80, n = 342) were used in the NE. In the SBRP one short-term database (1984 Water Year, n = 531) and one long-term data base (1951–80, n = 60) were used. For the NE and the SBRP, runoff was not directly correlated with watershed area using the five regional databases. Also, runoff normalized by precipitation was not related to watershed area. 相似文献
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We investigated the benefits of larval cannibalism in the Neotropical mosquito Trichoprosopon digitatum. The clutch size of the mosquito in the field was strongly correlated with adult female size, indicating a fitness advantage
to being large. In controlled laboratory experiments, we compared the survivorship and eventual adult sizes of larvae that
were given the opportunity to cannibalise conspecifics throughout their lifetimes with the survivorship and adult sizes of
larvae that were prevented from cannibalising. Since the benefits of cannibalism are likely to depend on the context in which
it occurs, the experiment was conducted at two levels of alternative food availability. When food availability was high most
larvae survived to adulthood, females cannibalised more than males and there was no measurable advantage to cannibalism in
terms of survival rate, emergence time or adult size. Larvae were significantly more cannibalistic when food availability
was lower, although under these conditions no larvae survived to adulthood. Nevertheless, under low food an important fitness
benefit to cannibalism was revealed: individuals which had the opportunity to cannibalise survived significantly longer as
larvae than those which did not. This increased longevity is likely to provide an important advantage to mosquito larvae when
they wait for the input of unpredictable food sources.
Received: 7 October 1995/Accepted after revision: 13 April 1996 相似文献
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Schmidt TS Clements WH Wanty RB Verplanck PL Church SE San Juan CA Fey DL Rockwell BW DeWitt EH Klein TL 《Ecological applications》2012,22(3):870-879
Geologic processes strongly influence water and sediment quality in aquatic ecosystems but rarely are geologic principles incorporated into routine biomonitoring studies. We test if elevated concentrations of metals in water and sediment are restricted to streams downstream of mines or areas that may discharge mine wastes. We surveyed 198 catchments classified as "historically mined" or "unmined," and based on mineral-deposit criteria, to determine whether water and sediment quality were influenced by naturally occurring mineralized rock, by historical mining, or by a combination of both. By accounting for different geologic sources of metals to the environment, we were able to distinguish aquatic ecosystems limited by metals derived from natural processes from those due to mining. Elevated concentrations of metals in water and sediment were not restricted to mined catchments; depauperate aquatic communities were found in unmined catchments. The type and intensity of hydrothermal alteration and the mineral deposit type were important determinants of water and sediment quality as well as the aquatic community in both mined and unmined catchments. This study distinguished the effects of different rock types and geologic sources of metals on ecosystems by incorporating basic geologic processes into reference and baseline site selection, resulting in a refined assessment. Our results indicate that biomonitoring studies should account for natural sources of metals in some geologic environments as contributors to the effect of mines on aquatic ecosystems, recognizing that in mining-impacted drainages there may have been high pre-mining background metal concentrations. 相似文献
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Leon Liegel David Cassell Donald Stevens Paul Shaffer Robbins Church 《Environmental management》1991,15(2):269-279
The Direct/Delayed Response Project (DDRP) is one of several studies being conducted by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to assess risk to surface waters from acidic deposition in the eastern United States. In one phase of DDRP, land use,
wetland, and forest cover data were collected for statistical samples of 145 Northeast lake and 35 Southern Blue Ridge Province
stream watersheds in the United States. Land-use and other data then were extrapolated from individual to target watershed
populations. Project statistical design allows summarization of results for various subsets of the target population. This
article discusses results and implications of the land-use and land-cover characterization for both regions.
Forest cover was the primary land use in both regions. In the Northeast, developed (agriculture and urban) land was positively
associated with surface-water chemistry values for acid neutralizing capacity, Ca plus Mg, pH, and sulfate in the Pocono/Catskill
subregion. Extensive wetlands and beaver activity occur in parts of the Northeast region, whereas topography limits wetland
and riparian development in the Southern Blue Ridge Province. Northeast soils have low sulfate adsorption capacity, most watersheds
are near sulfur steady state, and lake sulfate concentrations are controlled principally by levels of sulfur deposition. Net
annual sulfur retention in Northeast watersheds is positively correlated with occurrence of wetlands and beaver impoundments.
In contrast, most Southern Blue Ridge Province soils have high sulfate adsorption capacities, resulting in high net watershed
sulfur retention. At the present time, stream sulfate concentrations and percent sulfur retention are controlled principally
by soil chemical properties related to adsorption rather than atmospheric deposition and land use.
The information in this document has been funded wholly by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. It has been
subjected to the agency's peer and administrative review, and it has been approved for publication as an EPA document. Mention
of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. 相似文献
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Riprap, consisting of large boulders or concrete blocks, is extensively used to stabilize streambanks and to inhibit lateral erosion of rivers, yet its effect on river morphology and its ecological consequences have been relatively little studied. In this paper, we review the available information, most of it culled from the “grey” literature. We use a simple one‐dimensional morphodynamic model as a conceptual tool to illustrate potential morphological effects of riprap placement in a gravel‐bed river, which include inhibition of local sediment supply to the channel and consequent channel bed scour and substrate coarsening, and downstream erosion. Riprap placement also tends to sever organic material input from the riparian zone, with loss of shade, wood input, and input of finer organic material. Available information on the consequences for the aquatic ecosystem mainly concerns effects on commercially and recreationally important fishes. The preponderance of studies report unfavorable effects on local numbers, but habitat niches created by openings in riprap can favorably affect invertebrates and some small fishes. There is a need for much more research on both morphological and ecosystem effects of riprap placement. 相似文献
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P. J. Wigington M. R. Church T. C. Strickland K. N. Eshleman J. Van Sickle 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》1998,34(5):1035-1049
ABSTRACT: During an autumn runoff event we sampled 48 streams with predominantly forested watersheds and igneous bedrock in the Oregon Coast Range. The streams had acid neutralizing capacities (ANC) > 90 μeq/L and pH > 6.4. Streamwater Na +, Ca2 +, and Mg2 + concentrations were greater than K + concentrations. Anion concentrations generally followed the order of Cl- > NO3- > SO42-. Chloride and Na + concentrations were highest in samples collected in streams near the Pacific Ocean and decreased markedly as distance from the coast increased. Sea salt exerted no discernible influence on stream water acid-base status during the sampling period. Nitrate concentrations in the study streams were remarkably variable, ranging from below detection to 172 μeq/L. We hypothesize that forest vegetation is the primary control of spatial variability of the NO3- concentrations in Oregon Coast Range streams. We believe that symbiotic N fixation by red alder in pure or mixed stands is the primary source of N to forested watersheds in the Oregon Coast Range. 相似文献