'watershed function' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used in the context of hydrology, describing the way water flows across land. For example, "The watershed function of this mountain range is essential to the surrounding ecosystem."
However, some droplets were connected in clusters and a watershed function was used to dissociate them.
After a median filter was applied to improve image noise, a threshold was set and the watershed function was used.
These results point to the importance of understanding the independent and interactive effects of multiple invaders on watershed function.
Oil sands development in Canada presents overwhelming challenges for boreal forest conservation and reclamation due to the disturbance of watershed function.
A distance map was calculated for the foreground pixels (R::EBImage::diatmap), and a watershed function was applied to index the foreground objects with tolerance = 1 and extension = 3 (R::EBImage::watershed).
Management of U.S. National Forests is now more driven by balancing wildlife, fuels reduction, forest products, ecosystem services (notably watershed function and carbon storage), ecosystem restoration, other non-extractive uses, and constrained by regulatory concerns such as the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The role of trees in improving watershed functions and the importance of hydraulic lift in dryland environments are also considered.
They involve a within biome comparison across the Pacific upland forests, together with vertical transects to study watershed functions down to the coastal and near-shore marine habitats.
Our case studies reveal that local communities and policy-makers have a diverse range of knowledge regarding watershed functions and services.
In this area, various myths about watershed functions – already dismissed in other parts of the world – still dominate the thinking of many foresters and policymakers; this paper illustrates how and why this situation came about.
Forest degradation in turn resulted for scarcity of fuelwood and other substantial antagonistic consequences, such as watershed functions deterioration, loss of biodiversity, carbon dioxide release into the environment and intensive soil erosion (Jain and Singh1999; Heltberg et al. 2000; Pandey 2002).
