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Francesca Rossi
The negative impacts of climate change on natural and anthropic ecosystems have led to the increasingly urgent search for policies, strategies and tools able to counteract degradation and risk factors on vulnerable landscapes. Among these, the research a...
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Jordan Vernon, Joseph St. Peter, Christy Crandall, Olufunke E. Awowale, Paul Medley, Jason Drake and Victor Ibeanusi
Forest management depends on forest condition data and the ability to quantify the impacts of management activities to make informed decisions. Spatially quantifying water yield (WY) from forests across large landscapes enables managers to consider poten...
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Miklas Scholz
Sustainable water systems often comprise complex combinations of traditional and new system components that mimic natural processes. These green systems aim to protect public health and safety, and restore natural and human landscapes. Green infrastructu...
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Brian D. Smerdon,Todd Redding,Jos Beckers
This paper provides an introduction to the role of groundwater in watersheds, presents an overview of groundwater resources in British Columbia, and reviews the potential effects of forest management activities (e.g., harvest operations, road building, r...
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Reagan W. Hejl, Matthew M. Conley, Desalegn D. Serba and Clinton F. Williams
The development of management plans which lead to water efficient landscapes is a growing need in the turfgrass community. While deficit irrigation as a scheduling method can improve water conservation, more information is desired on how to best leverage...
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Tomá? Kvítek, Antonín Zajícek, Tomá? Dostál, Petr Fucík, Josef Krása, Miroslav Bauer, Barbora Jáchymová, Zbynek Kulhavý and Martin Pavel
Non-point sources of water pollution caused by agricultural crop production are a serious problem in Czechia, at present. This paper describes a new approach for the mutual delineation and assessment of different pollution sources where the critical poin...
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Jürgen Hofmann, Daniel Karthe, Ralf Ibisch, Michael Schäffer, Saulyegul Avlyush, Sonja Heldt and Andrew Kaus
A comprehensive monitoring project (2006?2013) provided data on hydrology, hydromorphology, climatology, water physico-chemistry, sedimentology, macroinvertebrate community and fish diversity in the Kharaa River basin in northern Mongolia, thus enabling,...
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Sujay S. Kaushal, William H. McDowell, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Tamara A. Newcomer Johnson, Paul M. Mayer, Kenneth T. Belt and Michael J. Pennino
The structure, function, and services of urban ecosystems evolve over time scales from seconds to centuries as Earth?s population grows, infrastructure ages, and sociopolitical values alter them. In order to systematically study changes over time, the co...
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Lawrence E. Stevens, Jeffrey Jenness and Jeri D. Ledbetter
The Colorado River basin (CRB), the primary water source for southwestern North America, is divided into the 283,384 km2, water-exporting Upper CRB (UCRB) in the Colorado Plateau geologic province, and the 344,440 km2, water-receiving Lower CRB (LCRB) in...
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Carlos G. Ochoa and Mohamed A. B. Abdallah
There is scarce information regarding the interactions between young tree water uptake and the environment in water-limited ecosystems. This study was conducted in a semiarid rangeland ecosystem in central Oregon, Pacific Northwest Region, USA. We measur...
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Ulrik Ekman
This article addresses the issue of developing designs of resilient hydrological infrastructures for cities facing sea level rise in the Anthropocene. It undertakes short case studies of differently scaled cities, three in the Global North and three in t...
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Yuanmei Jiao, Zhiqin Zha and Qiue Xu
Understanding the influence of landscape patterns on the water quality of agricultural wetlands is critically important for their management and related decision-making. However, the question of how to quantify this objectively remains a challenge in the...
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Giacomo Melloni, Ana Paula Dias Turetta, Michelle Bonatti and Stefan Sieber
A water-energy-food (WEF) nexus assessment supports natural resource management by providing an integrated framework for evaluation and decision-making. The participation of a wide range of stakeholders is essential for achieving environmental, economic,...
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Caroline A. Ouko, Richard Mulwa, Robert Kibugi, Margaret A. Owuor, Julie G. Zaehringer and Nicholas O. Oguge
Identifying and characterizing ecosystem services (ES) has been shown to have an important role in sustainable natural resource management. However, understanding communities’ perspectives is critical in determining opportunities and constraints fo...
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Caroline A. Ouko, Richard Mulwa, Robert Kibugi, Margaret A. Owuor, Julie G. Zaehringer and Nicholas O. Oguge
Identifying and characterizing ecosystem services (ES) has been shown to have an important role in sustainable natural resource management. However, understanding communities’ perspectives is critical in determining opportunities and constraints fo...
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Caroline A. Ouko, Richard Mulwa, Robert Kibugi, Margaret A. Owuor, Julie G. Zaehringer and Nicholas O. Oguge
Identifying and characterizing ecosystem services (ES) has been shown to have an important role in sustainable natural resource management. However, understanding communities’ perspectives is critical in determining opportunities and constraints fo...
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Vladimir R. Karimov, Aleksey Y. Sheshukov
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Ephemeral gully erosion, prevalent on agricultural landscapes of the Great Plains, is recognized as a large source of soil loss and a substantial contributor to the sedimentation of small ponds and large reservoirs. Multi-seasonal field studies can provi...
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Hongwei Ruan, Songbing Zou, Dawen Yang, Yuhan Wang, Zhenliang Yin, Zhixiang Lu, Fang Li and Baorong Xu
The scarcity and uneven distribution of precipitation stations in the inland river basins of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau restrict the application of the distributed hydrological model and spatial analysis of water balance component characteristics. ...
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Robert G. Varady, Adriana A. Zuniga-Teran, Andrea K. Gerlak and Sharon B. Megdal
The crucial role of groundwater and the centrality of water governance in accommodating growing water demands sustainably are becoming well recognized. We review 10 case studies of groundwater governance?representing diverse global regions and local cont...
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Marcelo Gomes Miguez, Aline Pires Veról, Matheus Martins de Sousa and Osvaldo Moura Rezende
The development of cities has always had a very close relation with water. However, cities directly impact land use patterns and greatly change natural landscapes, aggravating floods. Considering this situation, this paper intends to discuss lowland occu...
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