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Feng Zhou, Wanshun Zhang, Xin Liu, Anna Jiang, Gang Chen, Ao Li and Hong Peng
Terraces play a crucial role in regulating the water cycle. The management and restoration of, and the conservation strategies and plans for basins rely heavily on the assessment of alterations in hydrological characteristics, whether natural or man-made...
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Yuxuan Gao, Wei Xiong and Chenhao Wang
Dam operation is regarded as an effective way to increase water, food, and energy security for society. However, with the increasing water demand and frequent extreme droughts, numerous rivers worldwide go through periods of water scarcity and water ecos...
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Carlos G. Ochoa, Federico Villarreal-Guerrero, Jesús A. Prieto-Amparán, Hector R. Garduño, Feng Huang and Carlos Ortega-Ochoa
For this study, conducted in a semiarid (318 mm) rangeland setting in the Chihuahuan Desert region in northern Mexico, we evaluated the seasonal and interannual variability of precipitation, vegetation, and groundwater relations. Between 2012 and 2014, a...
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Trevor K. Eckermann, Danielle S. Hunt and Alicia M. Kinoshita
Given the widespread presence of non-native vegetation in urban and Mediterranean watersheds, it is important to evaluate how these sensitive ecosystems will respond to activities to manage and restore native vegetation conditions. This research focuses ...
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Cássio G. Rampinelli, Ian Knack and Tyler Smith
Many hydrologic studies that are the basis for water resources planning and management rely on streamflow information. Calibration and use of hydrologic models to extend flow series based on rainfall data, perform flood frequency analysis, or develop flo...
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Laura M. Norman, James B. Callegary, Laurel Lacher, Natalie R. Wilson, Chloé Fandel, Brandon T. Forbes and Tyson Swetnam
This paper describes coupling field experiments with surface and groundwater modeling to investigate rangelands of SE Arizona, USA using erosion-control structures to augment shallow and deep aquifer recharge. We collected field data to describe the phys...
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Joshua M. Silvis, Brian C. Benson, Michael L. Shema and Mark R. Haibach
Mine subsidence can induce streambed ruptures that pirate surface water from a stream. Current understanding of the effects of longwall mining on streams lacks rigorous analytical approaches to detect hydrologic effects and does not consider the efficacy...
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Yongbo Liu, Wanhong Yang, Hui Shao, Zhiqiang Yu and John Lindsay
A GIS-based fully-distributed model, IMWEBs-Wetland (Integrated Modelling for Watershed Evaluation of BMPs?Wetland), is developed to simulate hydrologic processes of site-specific wetlands in an agricultural watershed. This model, powered by the open-sou...
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Narayanan Kannan, Aavudai Anandhi and Jaehak Jeong
Existing methods to estimate stream health are often location-specific, and do not address all of the components of stream health. In addition, there are very few guidelines to estimate the health of a stream, although the literature and useful tools suc...
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Matthew J. Deitch and Brock Dolman
Seasonal rainfall dynamics in Mediterranean-climate coastal California place pressures on humans and aquatic ecosystems. Without rainfall during summer, residents and land managers commonly turn to streams and adjacent shallow aquifers to meet domestic, ...
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