Our study illustrates the importance of considering structural diversity, hydrologic variation, and landscape position as key elements to understanding overall diversity represented by the three taxa in isolated wetlands and in developing assessment tools of wetland condition.
This study determined the impacts of landscape position on soil hydrologic functions by using Brilliant Blue FCF and Br− tracers to characterize flow pathways through soils of stepped terrains.
In addition, Additional files 9, 10, 11 and 12 describe the underlying data and the connectivity metrics that we calculated in order to define and classify lakes, streams, and wetlands based on their position in the hydrologic flowpath and according to their connection(s) with other surface water features.
We examined two shallow pond peatland complexes located in contrasting topographic positions within a clay-rich till region: one on a moraine and one on a lowland clay plain, to evaluate the influence of landscape position on wetland groundwater surface water interactions, hydrologic function, and potential response to disturbance.
This study highlights the importance of landscape position and resultant snow accumulation to the hydrologic balance of snow-free alpine tundra, and suggests that modeling studies must account for seasonally dissimilar partitioning of the energy balance in order to accurately predict evaporation and/or sublimation.
We use soil moisture as a spatially-distributed hydrologic indicator to assess the influence of vegetation, fire history and landscape position on water availability in the Illilouette Creek Basin in Yosemite National Park.
Shifts in temperature and precipitation can cause significant changes to glacier size and terminus position, the production and delivery of organic mass, and in the hydrologic energy related to the transport of water and sediment through proglacial environments.
When a DEM deforms through time as predicted by our model of viscoelastic earth relaxation, the entire surface hydrologic system with its lakes, outlets, shorelines and rivers also evolves without requiring assumptions of outlet position.
The paper by Bexfield and Jurgens in this issue shows that the location of a well within a flow system or hydrologic position affects the quality of water produced by a well.
Therefore this work points to the necessity of monitoring the OC pools in these landform positions and to consider quick responses when it comes to changes in the hydrologic regime and/or land-use system.
We evaluated soil physical and hydrologic characteristics at each of low- (backyard, fenceline) and high-disturbance (within the demolition footprint) positions in 52 vacant lots in Cleveland, OH, which were the result of different eras of demolition process and quality (i.e., pre-1996, post-1996).
