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Linking Hydrological Connectivity to Wetland Vegetation Carbon Storage: Insights From the Largest Freshwater Lake in China

Water Resources Research
Wetlands, though covering only 2% of the Earth's surface, store over 20% of global organic carbon, making them vital reservoirs in the global carbon cycle.
Zhiqiang Tan, Yaling Lin, Leiqiang Gong, Jing Yao, Yunliang Li, Xiaolong Wang, Xianghu Li, Yongjiu Cai   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Restoring land–water transition areas to stimulate food web development is mediated by the hydrological connectivity

Ecological Indicators
Land-water transition areas play an important role in the functioning of both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Enhancing habitat complexity and heterogeneity by restoring or adding land–water transition areas to degraded aquatic ecosystems can be ...
Hui Jin, Casper H.A. van Leeuwen, Elisabeth S. Bakker   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Injury Risks to a Migratory Freshwater Fish During Downstream Passage Through a Regulated Floodplain Outlet: A Case Study on Golden Perch (Macquaria ambigua)

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT River infrastructures such as weirs, dams, inlet and outlet regulators often impair connectivity, leading to degradation and loss of key habitats for riverine fishes. This also holds true for golden perch (Macquaria ambigua Richardson), a migratory species in Australia's Murray–Darling Basin.
Josef Knott, Craig A. Boys, Christoffer Nagel, Jason D. Thiem, Lee J. Baumgartner, Juergen Geist   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engineered Gravel Trench Hyporheic Exchange to Create Cold‐Water Thermal Refuges

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Warming rivers are driving a loss or fragmentation of cold‐water habitat and providing the impetus to develop proactive thermal management approaches to maintain suitable habitat in rivers. One innovative approach is through the creation of cold‐water thermal refuges during periods of thermal stress for aquatic species.
Kathryn A. Smith, Edmund A. Halfyard, Christa Kelleher, Barret L. Kurylyk   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hydrological Connectivity of Distributary‐Confluence Geomorphic Unit: A Case Study of H‐Shaped Features Within River Networks

Water Resources Research
The H‐shaped feature, characterized by a single connecting channel (CC) linking two inflows, is a common geomorphological unit in delta river networks.
Xifen Chen, Huan Liu, Leiping Ye, Jie Ren, Zhaohui Deng, Jiaxue Wu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seasonally flooded landscape connectivity and implications for fish in the Napo Moist Forest: A high-resolution mapping approach

Global Ecology and Conservation
The Amazon River Basin's fish diversity is shaped by its dynamic flood-pulse system, critical for hydrological and ecological connectivity. This study examines the Napo Moist Forest (NMF) ecoregion, mapping permanent and seasonally flooded areas from ...
Francisco Cuesta, Marco Calderón-Loor, Paulina Rosero, Marlon Calispa, Hedi Zisling, Yunierkis Pérez-Castillo, Gabriela Echevarría, Blanca Ríos-Touma   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Breaking down seagrass fragmentation in a marine heatwave impacted World Heritage Area

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Habitat fragmentation can exacerbate the impacts of habitat loss but is rarely quantified in marine environments. Using satellite‐derived habitat maps, we identify widespread seagrass fragmentation following a marine heatwave that contributed to a dramatic shift in seascape structure in the Shark Bay World Heritage Area.
Michael D. Taylor, Simone Strydom, Matthew W. Fraser, Ana M. M. Sequeira, Gary A. Kendrick   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF THE ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL EFFICACY OF LAND RETIREMENT [PDF]

Most land management policies, such as land retirement, have multiple objectives. This study uses a cellular automata simulation model to explore how various spatial characteristics of land parcels on a hypothetical landscape contribute to the efficacy ...
Homans, Frances R., Marshall, Elizabeth P.   +1 more
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A baseline appraisal of water-dependant ecosystem services, the roles they play within desakota livelihood systems and their potential sensitivity to climate change [PDF]

, 2008
This report forms part of a larger research programme on 'Reinterpreting the Urban-Rural Continuum', which conceptualises and investigates current knowledge and research gaps concerning 'the role that ecosystems services play in the livelihoods of the ...
Gosling, Simon, Gurnell, Angela, Jones, Alice, McGregor, Glenn, Moggeridge, Helen   +4 more
core  

Evaluating the Role of Social Capital for the Design of Sustainable River Governance Strategies: The Case of Tagus River

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of social capital in designing and implementing more effective governance strategies to improve the state of the Tagus River's significantly deteriorated middle reach (Spain). We employed social network analysis (SNA) to evaluate the bonding, bridging and linking social capital and the quality of stakeholder ...
Leticia Blázquez, Juan A. García, José M. Bodoque   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source