Coupled modelling of the interaction between dissolved substances emitted by Minho and Lima estuarine outflows (Portugal)

Oliveira, Vítor H.; Sousa, Magda C.; Picado, Ana; Mendes, Renato; Ribeiro, Américo S.; Morgado, Fernando; Dias, João Miguel

doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2021.103601

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“…It is born in Serra de Meira (Spain), at 750 m of altitude, between Caminha (Portugal) and La Guardia (Spain). The hydrographic basin of the Minho River drains into the Atlantic Ocean and comprises an area of 17 080 km 2 (Oliveira et al 2021 ). Part of Minho River (42.00ºN, 8.39ºW) is integrated in the Natura 2000 Network as a Site of Community Importance (SIC: PTCON0019) situated in the Atlantic biogeographical region with a total area of 4 554 ha (Portaria nº 829/2007).…”

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“…It is born in Serra de Meira (Spain), at 750 m of altitude, between Caminha (Portugal) and La Guardia (Spain). The hydrographic basin of the Minho River drains into the Atlantic Ocean and comprises an area of 17 080 km 2 (Oliveira et al 2021) ). The Minho's estuary area is also considered an Important Bird Area (IBA), serving as place of passage for migratory birds, such as great cormorants.…”

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Fishermen’s knowledge and conservation attitudes: focus on the great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Minho River, Portugal

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Considerate the attitudes of traditional communities and their local ecological knowledge (LEK) can contribute to better policymaking and more appropriate management plans. Thus, this study strived to share the Minho River’s fishermen LEK about great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758), as well as it exposes their conservation attitudes towards this species. We described and analysed interviewees’ LEK qualitatively, while their attitudes were analysed quantitatively through correlation with variables from fishermen’s profile. Fishermen were able to identify cormorant’s ecological characteristics like habitats, prey species, and foraging behaviour. They also exposed an overall moderate attitude towards the conservation of great cormorants. The LEK often was supported by published data, but we found diverse information in some themes, such as habitat and diet. We found a significant negative correlation between fishermen’s age and attitudes ( p = 0.02), and those fishermen who often fished contrasted significantly from those who rarely fished ( p = 0.02). We lastly reaffirm the importance of the present study as background information regarding P. carbo in Minho River and of ethnobiological studies as a tool for management plans. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10452-021-09928-4.

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“…It is born in Serra de Meira (Spain), at 750 m of altitude, between Caminha (Portugal) and La Guardia (Spain). The hydrographic basin of the Minho River drains into the Atlantic Ocean and comprises an area of 17 080 km 2 (Oliveira et al 2021) ). The Minho's estuary area is also considered an Important Bird Area (IBA), serving as place of passage for migratory birds, such as great cormorants.…”

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Fishermen’s knowledge and conservation attitudes: focus on the great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Minho River, Portugal

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“…The other most important factor is the input of sediment from the watersheds. Typically these studies are focused on a particular lagoon, estuary, or river delta, such as in [23][24][25]; however, in some cases, two adjacent estuaries or river deltas can influence one another, as is the case of the Tagus and Sado estuaries in Portugal [26] or the northern Portuguese rivers [27]. Therefore, improving regional ocean models would help scientists to produce better quality information for decision makers acting on the local and regional level, through the study of management policy scenarios taking (or not) into consideration climate changes [20,28] and using regional model inputs that can better represent the combined effect of multiple freshwater sources in coastal currents.…”

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Coupling Rivers and Estuaries with an Ocean Model: An Improved Methodology

Sobrinho

Pablo

Campuzano

et al. 2021

Water

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Freshwater sources are essential inputs for regional ocean models covering coastal areas such as the western Iberian Peninsula. The problem is how to include the mixture between fresh and salt water, typically performed by estuaries and in the adjacent areas of river mouths, without unsustainable increases of computational time and human setup errors. This work provides a proof-of-concept solution to both these problems through the use of an offline two-way methodology, where local schematic rivers and estuaries are responsible for mixing river freshwater with salt water of a regional model application. Two different offline upscaling methodologies—which focus on the implementation of tidal fluxes from local domains to regional domains in the context of operational modelling—are implemented in the Portuguese Coast Operational Modelling System (PCOMS) regional model application as well as in a version without rivers. A comparison between results produced by these methodologies, field data, and satellite imagery was performed, which confirmed that the proposed methodology of using schematic rivers and estuaries, combined with the new offline upscaling methodology proposed herein, represents a good solution for operational modelling of coastal areas subject to a high dominance of freshwater inputs.

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Integration of hydrodynamic and water quality modeling to mitigate the effects of spill pollution into the Nile River, Egypt

Ramadan,

Moussa,

Magdy

et al. 2024

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Coupled modelling of the interaction between dissolved substances emitted by Minho and Lima estuarine outflows (Portugal)

Cited by 7 publications

References 47 publications

Fishermen’s knowledge and conservation attitudes: focus on the great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Minho River, Portugal

Fishermen’s knowledge and conservation attitudes: focus on the great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Minho River, Portugal

Coupling Rivers and Estuaries with an Ocean Model: An Improved Methodology

Integration of hydrodynamic and water quality modeling to mitigate the effects of spill pollution into the Nile River, Egypt

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