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A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 10021
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Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, College of Science and Liberal Arts, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Interests: land use change; climate cahnge; ecosystem services; watershed management; nonpint source pollution; stormwater management; green infrastructure
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Interests: watershed hydrology; water quality; green infrastructure; ecohydrology; climate change; water sustainability
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Dear Colleagues,
Watershed connectivity can be defined as the flow and exchange of organisms, energy and materials throughout numerous pathways within a watershed ecosystem. Watershed connectivity supports the functions of the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and governs the interactions between the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in watersheds that provide ecosystem services that are vital to the well-being of people and communities at different scales on the planet. However, human disturbance and climate change have been significantly altering watershed connectivity, damaging watershed functions and threatening the provision of those vital ecosystem services. The examples of human disturbances may include urban development, agriculture, dams and river channelization among others. The negative impacts of human disturbances on watershed connectivity have been further compounded by climate change.
This Special Issue ofLand, “Understanding Watershed Connectivity on a Changing Planet,” invites researchers and practitioners across all relevant disciplines to submit their theoretical and empirical work, literature reviews and case studies on watershed connectivity from multiple realms - hydrological, ecological, and even social, economic and political. We invite manuscripts that discuss current knowledge on watershed connectivity and identify the challenges, pitfalls, and knowledge gaps toward restoring and protecting watershed ecosystems to cope with uncertainties in the future of the changing planet. The Special Issue aims to develop a sound understanding of watershed connectivity and develop science-based watershed and resource management practices that restore watershed functions and services and help achieve several important sustainable development goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations directly related to land, water and societal wellbeing.
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- Current state of knowledge on watershed connectivity
- Concepts, metrics and case studies that assess landscape connectivity such as the impacts of impervious surfaces and fragmented habitats.
- Concepts, metrics and case studies that assess aquatic connectivity such as impacts of dam removal and retrofitting of road-stream crossings
- Concepts, metrics and case studies that assess the interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic ecosystems including the estuary ecosystems
- Development and applications of innovative connectivity-based watershed planning and management that improve watershed health such as precision conservation
- Ecosystem service assessment and valuation related to the changes in watershed connectivity
- Perceptions and social, economic and political considerations related to the changes in watershed connectivity, watershed functions and ecosystem services.
Prof. Dr.Zeyuan Qiu
Dr.Subhasis Giri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- connectivity
- fragmentation
- climate change
- hydrology
- ecology
- dam removal
- watershed
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Land Cover Effects on Selected Nutrient Compounds in Small Lowland Agricultural Catchments
byMaksym Łaszewski, Michał Fedorczyk, Sylwia Gołaszewska, Zuzanna Kieliszek, Paulina Maciejewska, Jakub Miksa and Wiktoria Zacharkiewicz
Land 2021, 10(2), 182; https://doi.org/10.3390/land10020182 - 10 Feb 2021
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Abstract
The influence of landscape on nutrient dynamics in rivers constitutes an important research issue because of its significance with regard to water and land management. In the current study spatial and temporal variability of N-NO3 and P-PO4 concentrations and their landscape [...] Read more.
The influence of landscape on nutrient dynamics in rivers constitutes an important research issue because of its significance with regard to water and land management. In the current study spatial and temporal variability of N-NO3 and P-PO4 concentrations and their landscape dependence was documented in the Świder River catchment in central Poland. From April 2019 to March 2020, water samples were collected from fourteen streams in the monthly timescale and the concentrations of N-NO3 and P-PO4 were correlated with land cover metrics based on the Corine Land Cover 2018 and Sentinel 2 Global Land Cover datasets. It was documented that agricultural lands and forests have a clear seasonal impact on N-NO3 concentrations, whereas the effect of meadows was weak and its direction was dependent on the dataset. The application of buffer zones metrics increased the correlation performance, whereas Euclidean distance scaling improved correlation mainly for forest datasets. The concentration of P-PO4 was not significantly related with land cover metrics, as their dynamics were driven mainly by hydrological conditions. The obtained results provided a new insight into landscape–water quality relationships in lowland agricultural landscape, with a special focus on evaluating the predictive performance of different land cover metrics and datasets.Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Understanding Watershed Connectivity in a Changing Planet)
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