Identifying and assessing the potential hydrological function of past artificial forest drainage
Drainage of forested wetlands for increased timber production has profoundly altered the hydrology and water quality of their downstream waterways. Some ditches need network maintenance (DNM), but potential positive effects on tree productivity must be balanced against environmental impacts. Current...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6072640 2023-05-15T17:44:37+02:00 Identifying and assessing the potential hydrological function of past artificial forest drainage Hasselquist, Eliza Maher Lidberg, William Sponseller, Ryan A. Ågren, Anneli Laudon, Hjalmar 2017-11-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072640/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29098602 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-017-0984-9 en eng Springer Netherlands http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072640/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29098602 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-017-0984-9 © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. CC-BY Report Text 2017 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-017-0984-9 2018-08-19T00:11:33Z Drainage of forested wetlands for increased timber production has profoundly altered the hydrology and water quality of their downstream waterways. Some ditches need network maintenance (DNM), but potential positive effects on tree productivity must be balanced against environmental impacts. Currently, no clear guidelines exist for DNM that strike this balance. Our study helps begin to prioritise DNM by: (1) quantifying ditches by soil type in the 68 km2 Krycklan Catchment Study in northern Sweden and (2) using upslope catchment area algorithms on new high-resolution digital elevation models to determine their likelihood to drain water. Ditches nearly doubled the size of the stream network (178–327 km) and 17% of ditches occurred on well-draining sedimentary soils, presumably making DNM unwarranted. Modelling results suggest that 25–50% of ditches may never support flow. With new laser scanning technology, simple mapping and modelling methods can locate ditches and model their function, facilitating efforts to balance DNM with environmental impacts. Text Northern Sweden PubMed Central (PMC) Ambio 47 5 546 556 |
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Drainage of forested wetlands for increased timber production has profoundly altered the hydrology and water quality of their downstream waterways. Some ditches need network maintenance (DNM), but potential positive effects on tree productivity must be balanced against environmental impacts. Currently, no clear guidelines exist for DNM that strike this balance. Our study helps begin to prioritise DNM by: (1) quantifying ditches by soil type in the 68 km2 Krycklan Catchment Study in northern Sweden and (2) using upslope catchment area algorithms on new high-resolution digital elevation models to determine their likelihood to drain water. Ditches nearly doubled the size of the stream network (178–327 km) and 17% of ditches occurred on well-draining sedimentary soils, presumably making DNM unwarranted. Modelling results suggest that 25–50% of ditches may never support flow. With new laser scanning technology, simple mapping and modelling methods can locate ditches and model their function, facilitating efforts to balance DNM with environmental impacts. |
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