Depth-area-volume and hydroperiod relationships of ephemeral (vernal) forest pools in southern New England

Brooks, Robert T.

doi:10.1672/0277-5212(2002)022[0247:davahr]2.0.co;2

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“…This range of values lies within the expected range reported for temporary pools and ponds (Brooks and Hayashi, 2002;Hayashi and van der Kamp, 2007). For instance, Brooks and Hayashi (2002) reported p values ranging between 0.6 and 2.24 for 34 vernal pools. The R 2 of the power function fit range between 0.54 and 0.94.…”

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“…This Hayashi model has been used extensively to study permanent and semi-permanent pond dynamics in Senegal relevant for vectors of rift valley fever that have spatial scales of tens of metres (Soti et al, 2010). In addition, the model has also been evaluated for regional terrain (Brooks and Hayashi, 2002;Minke et al, 2010). However, no study has examined whether such a model can also be successfully applied to small temporary sub-metre scale water bodies.…”

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A breeding site model for regional, dynamical malaria simulations evaluated using in situ temporary ponds observations

Asare¹,

Tompkins²,

Amekudzi³

et al. 2016

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Daily observations of potential mosquito developmental habitats in a suburb of Kumasi in central Ghana reveal a strong variability in their water persistence times, which ranged between 11 and 81 days. The persistence of the ponds was strongly tied with rainfall, location and size of the puddles. A simple power-law relationship is found to fit the relationship between the average pond depth and area well. A prognostic water balance model is derived that describes the temporal evolution of the pond area and depth, incorporating the power-law geometrical relation. Pond area increases in response to rainfall, while evaporation and infiltration act as sink terms. Based on a range of evaluation metrics, the prognostic model is judged to provide a good representation of the pond coverage evolution at most sites. Finally, we demonstrate that the prognostic equation can be generalised and equally applied to a grid-cell to derive a fractional pond coverage, and thus can be implemented in spatially distributed models for relevant vector-borne diseases such as malaria.

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A breeding site model for regional, dynamical malaria simulations evaluated using in situ temporary ponds observations

Asare¹,

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Amekudzi³

et al. 2016

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“…Vernal pools are important landscape elements that contribute to amphibian metapopulation dynamics [49][50][51], the maintenance of threatened and endangered plant and animal species [52], water storage [53,54], and local biogeochemical reactions [55,56]. However, wetlands are also typically small and shallow systems that are easily overlooked and frequently unprotected by local, state, and federal regulations [57]; thus, they are often disturbed and destroyed [58,59].…”

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An Effective Method for Detecting Potential Woodland Vernal Pools Using High-Resolution LiDAR Data and Aerial Imagery

Lane

Liu

2014

Remote Sensing

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Effective conservation of woodland vernal pools-important components of regional amphibian diversity and ecosystem services-depends on locating and mapping these pools accurately. Current methods for identifying potential vernal pools are primarily based on visual interpretation and digitization of aerial photographs, with variable accuracy and low repeatability. In this paper, we present an effective and efficient method for detecting and mapping potential vernal pools using stochastic depression analysis with additional geospatial analysis. Our method was designed to take advantage of high-resolution light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data, which are becoming increasingly available, though not yet frequently employed in vernal pool studies. We successfully detected more than 2000 potential vernal pools in a ~150 km 2 study area in eastern Massachusetts. The accuracy assessment in our study indicated that the commission rates ranged from 2.5% to 6.0%, while the proxy omission rate was 8.2%, rates that are much lower than reported errors of previous vernal pool studies conducted in the northeastern United States. One significant advantage of our semi-automated approach for vernal pool identification is that it may reduce inconsistencies and alleviate repeatability concerns associated with manual photointerpretation methods. Another strength of our strategy is that, in addition to detecting the point-based vernal pool OPEN ACCESS Remote Sens. 2014, 6 11445 locations for the inventory, the boundaries of vernal pools can be extracted as polygon features to characterize their geometric properties, which are not available in the current statewide vernal pool databases in Massachusetts.

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“…can help to slow down or stop water while restoring the natural landscape. However, to be able to employ the various forms of retention correctly, one should first identify the conditions that will affect small water cycles and the magnitude of retention in the catchments [8,9].…”

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“…The occurrence of closed basins has a substantial impact on the present-day character of the water cycle in a river basin since they create special circulation conditions and offer a natural possibility of rainwater retention [5,8,9]. This is more important as Poland's water resources are modest when compared with other European countries [10], and the amount of water at our disposal largely depends on precipitation [11,12].…”

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Retentivity as an Indicator of the Capacity of Basins without an Outlet to Accumulate Water Surpluses

Major¹,

Cieśliński²

2015

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Depth-area-volume and hydroperiod relationships of ephemeral (vernal) forest pools in southern New England

Cited by 159 publications

References 27 publications

A breeding site model for regional, dynamical malaria simulations evaluated using in situ temporary ponds observations

A breeding site model for regional, dynamical malaria simulations evaluated using in situ temporary ponds observations

An Effective Method for Detecting Potential Woodland Vernal Pools Using High-Resolution LiDAR Data and Aerial Imagery

Retentivity as an Indicator of the Capacity of Basins without an Outlet to Accumulate Water Surpluses

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