Sentence examples for upstream catchment from inspiring English sources

A nested-sampling design was used to test for effects of increasing catchment scale on nuclide concentrations with upstream catchment areas ranging from 4 to 130,000 km2.

Mire genesis was dominated first by river water inflow from the upstream catchment area, and in a later successional stage by groundwater inflow at the mire margins.

The linear approach calculates increasing wetland retention with increasing upstream catchment area and appears to overestimate nitrogen retention in wetlands located more downstream.

In spring-fed systems like Silver Creek, it is clearly not feasible to separate river habitat restoration from upstream catchment and groundwater management.

Thus, the reach-scale variable response during the early Younger Dryas can be deemed to have been climatically triggered but superimposed by an internally driven specific upstream catchment response.

Putrajaya Wetlands in Malaysia, a 200 ha constructed wetland system consisting of 24 cells, was created in 1997 1998 to treat surface runoff caused by development and agricultural activities from an upstream catchment before entering Putrajaya Lake (400 ha).

High-consuming cities downstream inevitably exploited the upstream catchments, especially for timber.

Inflows from upstream catchments were estimated using a river network model.

There is currently no widely accepted method to quantify disturbances, and determining how to measure threats to upstream catchments using disturbance metrics can be time consuming and subjective.

Using a published repository of schistosomiasis studies in sub-Saharan Africa, we compared infection before and after the construction of 14 large dams for people living in: (i) upstream catchments within historical habitats of native prawns, (ii) comparable undammed watersheds, and (iii) dammed catchments beyond the historical reach of migratory prawns.

The utility of the viral MST tools and the prevalence and abundance of specific human and animal viruses in the five river catchments and adjacent seawater, which is impacted by riverine contributions from the upstream catchments, were examined.