In this study, we describe the spatial and seasonal patterns of two key environmental drivers, porewater (PW) conductivity and total phosphorus (TP), in the southern Everglades, FL., USA where saltwater intrusion, caused by rising sea level and hydrologic management, are transforming the natural environmental gradients of this ecological stressor and limiting nutrient.
Generally, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has ample proprietary authority to engage in transplantation/relocation, habitat engineering (including irrigation-hydrologic management), and captive breeding to support conservation (Scott and others 2008).
The primary motivation for making these two systems interoperable is that the CUAHSI HIS has a primary focus on hydrologic data management and visualization while the OpenMI has a primary focus on integrated environmental modeling.
This modeling integration includes a risk-based economic optimization model and a hydrologic water management simulation model that have been specified for the Middle Guadiana basin, a vulnerable drought-prone agro-ecological area with highly regulated river systems in southwest Spain.
Furthermore, due to the capability in combining linguistic power of a fuzzy system with numerical strength of a neural network, it is very useful in the modeling of processes such as hydrologic reservoir management and suspended sediment load estimation (Nayak et al. 2004, Kişi 2009).
By linking these two systems within a single desktop software application, an integrated hydrologic data management and analysis environment has been created that simplifies the process used by scientists and engineers to find, access, organize, and analyze the hydrologic data needed in modeling and managing hydrologic and environmental systems.
Hyperspectral satellite information can aid (Ben-Dor et al. 2004; Brunner et al. 2007a, b) required data sets in the appropriate hydrologic modeling and management of groundwater.
The impact of climate change on hydrologic design and management of hydrosystems could be one of the important challenges faced by future practicing hydrologists and water resources managers.
A variety of factors alter net rates of CH3Hg in methylation zones such as wetlands, riparian zones and surface water sediments, including temperature, hydrology, and hydrologic perturbations (i.e., changes in discharge, hydroperiod, reservoir management), the supply of Hg II) in a bioavailable form, labile organic carbon, and reducing conditions.
For management of hydrologic systems, political, economic, legal, social, cultural, and management aspects will need to be integrated.
We briefly discuss implications and challenges to prediction and management of hydrologic complex systems.
