Hydraulic analysis for assessing environmental flow selection and ecological model formulation

IF 2.5 3区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Ecohydrology Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI:10.1002/eco.2681
Aubrey Harris, Michael Porter, S. Kyle McKay, Anjali Mulchandani, Mark Stone
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Ecosystem management depends on transforming qualitative observations (e.g., slow-moving shallow conditions provide nursery refugia for silvery minnow larvae) into management actions to increase habitat quantity or improve habitat quality. To be effective, decision metrics that are developed for management objectives should be validated with field observations. Model assumptions, precision and parameter importance can be refined by comparing the fidelity of selected parameters computed as habitat quality metrics and the correlation of these metrics to real-world observations. Validated environmental metrics are more credible for management and can be compatible with ecosystem monitoring and project design processes. In this study, streamflow monitoring data and hydraulic modelling are used to quantify fish habitat extent for 15 years of spring runoff. The spring runoff event coincides with larval maturation to a free-swimming juvenile phase for the silvery minnow, a critical period in Rio Grande habitat management. Different methods to estimate habitat availability (i.e., hydrology statistics, inundation extents based on hydraulic modelling and areal habitat availability based on different formulations of a habitat suitability index curve) were used to test the efficacy of different metrics relative to species population monitoring. This analysis finds that flow–ecology relationships based on hydraulic modelling or hydrology statistics are both effective and highly correlated to larval production. The investigation shows how seasonal hydrologic characterization and hydraulic discretization have varying levels of correlation with seasonal fish production. This study demonstrates how hydraulic modelling data and hydrologic characterization of riverine environments can be used to validate or develop conceptual ecological models.

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用于评估环境流量选择和生态模型制定的水力分析
生态系统管理有赖于将定性观察结果(例如,缓慢流动的浅水条件为银鲦幼鱼提供了育苗庇护所)转化为管理行动,以增加栖息地数量或改善栖息地质量。为管理目标制定的决策指标应通过实地观测加以验证,这样才能取得成效。通过比较作为栖息地质量指标计算的选定参数的忠实性以及这些指标与实际观测结果的相关性,可以完善模型假设、精度和参数重要性。经过验证的环境指标在管理方面更加可信,并可与生态系统监测和项目设计过程相兼容。本研究利用溪流监测数据和水力模型来量化 15 年春季径流的鱼类栖息地范围。春季径流事件与银鲦鱼幼虫成熟到自由游动的幼鱼阶段相吻合,是格兰德河栖息地管理的关键时期。采用不同方法估算栖息地可用性(即水文统计数据、基于水力模型的淹没范围以及基于栖息地适宜性指数曲线不同公式的栖息地可用性面积),以测试不同指标对物种种群监测的有效性。分析发现,基于水力模型或水文统计的流量生态关系既有效又与幼虫产量高度相关。调查显示,季节性水文特征描述和水力离散与季节性鱼类产量具有不同程度的相关性。这项研究展示了如何利用河流环境的水力模型数据和水文特征来验证或开发概念生态模型。
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Ecohydrology
Ecohydrology 环境科学-生态学
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5.10
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116
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24 months
期刊介绍: Ecohydrology is an international journal publishing original scientific and review papers that aim to improve understanding of processes at the interface between ecology and hydrology and associated applications related to environmental management. Ecohydrology seeks to increase interdisciplinary insights by placing particular emphasis on interactions and associated feedbacks in both space and time between ecological systems and the hydrological cycle. Research contributions are solicited from disciplines focusing on the physical, ecological, biological, biogeochemical, geomorphological, drainage basin, mathematical and methodological aspects of ecohydrology. Research in both terrestrial and aquatic systems is of interest provided it explicitly links ecological systems and the hydrologic cycle; research such as aquatic ecological, channel engineering, or ecological or hydrological modelling is less appropriate for the journal unless it specifically addresses the criteria above. Manuscripts describing individual case studies are of interest in cases where broader insights are discussed beyond site- and species-specific results.
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