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This allowed us to identify the areas where low OCs of shifting land use towards improving watershed services can result in high watershed service payoffs.

Drowned-river mouth embayments receive high watershed inputs, have short water residence times, and have a surface water connection with Lake Ontario [ 17].

We hypothesized that high nutrient inputs to embayments, from either high watershed flows (i.e., short water residence time) or high nutrient concentrations due to land use, would positively affect fish abundance and biomass [ 21, 22, 1] and negatively affect species diversity through loss of intolerant species [ 4, 23].

Overall, the northern Sierra Nevada had the most change in MAF, the high watersheds of the southern-central Sierra Nevada had the most change in CT, and the central Sierra Nevada had the greatest increase in LFD (Figure 10).

It is possible that some of these indica varieties have been cultivated in lowland production regimes ("varzea"), which differs from the traditional production system of irrigated rice by capitalizing on high watersheds on riverine regions and does not use artificial irrigation.

Soil quality differences under ridge-till were found specifically for the backslope and shoulder landform elements, suggesting that soil quality increases on these landform elements are responsible for higher watershed-scale soil quality in the ridge-tilled watershed.

Construction of mega-projects in the higher watersheds, along with road networks that defy gravity in the slope lands, are indicated as direct triggers of an explicit human driver of landscape change.

Those regions were well endowed with water (in large rivers, as well as snow and ice) and presented the richest fodder base, because trees and bushes persisted in valleys, while higher watersheds were occupied by periglacial steppe.

This paper reconstructs M F relationships of 62 debris flows for an aggradational cone of a small (< 5 km2), high elevation watershed in the Swiss Alps since A.D. 1863.

Clean and voluminous, it now flows by gravity from Lesotho's high mountain watershed to the people of the new South Africa.

Thus, very high elevation watersheds that maintain cooler air temperatures and low watersheds that already have less snowpack are more resilient to CT than northern Sierra Nevada watersheds that reach the crest of the range.