Ecosystem Services Derived from Wetland Conservation Practices in the United States Prairie Pothole Region with an Emphasis on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Conservation Reserve and Wetlands Reserve Programs

Gleason, Robert A.; Laubhan, Murray K.; Euliss, Ned H.

doi:10.3133/pp1745

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“…2007) increases in agricultural commodity prices (Gleason et al 2008(Gleason et al , 2011. We expected that crops or soil tillage would affect wetland hydrology (Euliss and Mushet 1996, Voldseth et al 2007).…”

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“…Wetlands in the PPR are ecologically and economically important on a continental scale because they are major waterfowl breeding habitat for 50-80% of North American duck production (Batt et al 1989, Skagen et al 1999, Brown et al 2001. Additionally, these wetlands maintain regional biodiversity, provide flood storage, and recharge groundwater (Hubbard et al 1988, Gleason et al 2008. However, within the past two centuries a large number of wetlands within the PPR have been drained for agriculture (Dahl 1990, Bethke and Nudds 1995, Krapu et al 1997 and much of this drainage was consolidation drainage.…”

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Land use and wetland drainage affect water levels and dynamics of remaining wetlands

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Abstract. Depressional wetlands are productive and unique ecosystems found around the world. Their value is due, in part, to their dynamic nature, in which water levels fluctuate in response to climate, occasionally drying out. However, many wetlands have been altered by consolidation drainage, where multiple, smaller wetlands are drained into fewer, larger, wetlands causing higher water levels. We evaluated whether current (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010) water surface areas were greater than historical water surface areas of 141 randomly selected semipermanent and permanent wetlands across the Prairie Pothole Region of North Dakota, USA. We also evaluated whether differences between historical and current hydrology of these wetlands were attributable to consolidation drainage. For each of these wetlands, we digitized water surface areas from aerial photography during historical and current eras. Our results indicated that water surface areas are currently 86% greater in sample wetlands than they were historically and that differences can be attributed to consolidation drainage. Water surface areas of consolidated wetlands in extensively drained landscapes were 197% greater than those with no drainage and now require more extreme drought conditions to dry out. Wetlands in extensively drained catchments were larger, dry out less frequently, and have more surface-water connections to other wetlands via ditches. These factors make conditions more favorable for the presence of fish that decrease abundances of aquatic invertebrates and reduce the productivity and quality of these wetlands for many species. Our results support the idea that intact wetlands serve an important role in water storage and groundwater recharge and reduce down-stream runoff.

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Land use and wetland drainage affect water levels and dynamics of remaining wetlands

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“…Consequently, over 50% of the wetland area in the PPR of the United States (Tiner, 1984) and 71% in Canada (Lands Directorate, 1986) has been drained for agricultural development. Prairie wetlands also are of considerable ecological value and support more than 50% of North American migratory waterfowl and they provide numerous other ecosystem services (Gleason et al, 2008) such as climate change mitigation and water storage. Because competing land use has highly modified this landscape, we choose the area to demonstrate an application of shared open geospatial models to simulate hydrological and ecological change.…”

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“…The PPR supports more than 50% of North American migratory waterfowl (Gleason et al, 2008). To illustrate the utility of abovementioned models or services in predicting waterfowl dynamics, we implemented the rule-based model developed by Cowardin et al (1995) to estimate the number of breeding pairs for 12 waterfowl species according to the wetland water surface area (calculated from the water surface extent model) in May of each year.…”

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Prototyping an online wetland ecosystem services model using open model sharing standards

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a b s t r a c tGreat interest currently exists for developing ecosystem models to forecast how ecosystem services may change under alternative land use and climate futures. Ecosystem services are diverse and include supporting services or functions (e.g., primary production, nutrient cycling), provisioning services (e.g., wildlife, groundwater), regulating services (e.g., water purification, floodwater retention), and even cultural services (e.g., ecotourism, cultural heritage). Hence, the knowledge base necessary to quantify ecosystem services is broad and derived from many diverse scientific disciplines. Building the required interdisciplinary models is especially challenging as modelers from different locations and times may develop the disciplinary models needed for ecosystem simulations, and these models must be identified and made accessible to the interdisciplinary simulation. Additional difficulties include inconsistent data structures, formats, and metadata required by geospatial models as well as limitations on computing, storage, and connectivity. Traditional standalone and closed network systems cannot fully support sharing and integrating interdisciplinary geospatial models from variant sources. To address this need, we developed an approach to openly share and access geospatial computational models using distributed Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques and open geospatial standards. We included a means to share computational models compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Processing Services (WPS) standard to ensure modelers have an efficient and simplified means to publish new models. To demonstrate our approach, we developed five disciplinary models that can be integrated and shared to simulate a few of the ecosystem services (e.g., water storage, waterfowl breeding) that are provided by wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of North America.Ó 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Software availability

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“…These ecosystem services include agricultural production, fishery resources, flood mitigation, water storage, and entertainment locations [1,2]. All of these ecosystem services are affected by fluctuations in the lake-water extent over time and space [3].…”

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Spatio-Temporal Change of Lake Water Extent in Wuhan Urban Agglomeration Based on Landsat Images from 1987 to 2015

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Abstract:Urban lakes play an important role in urban development and environmental protection for the Wuhan urban agglomeration. Under the impacts of urbanization and climate change, understanding urban lake-water extent dynamics is significant. However, few studies on the lake-water extent changes for the Wuhan urban agglomeration exist. This research employed 1375 seasonally continuous Landsat TM/ETM+/OLI data scenes to evaluate the lake-water extent changes from 1987 to 2015. The random forest model was used to extract water bodies based on eleven feature variables, including six remote-sensing spectral bands and five spectral indices. An accuracy assessment yielded a mean classification accuracy of 93.11%, with a standard deviation of 2.26%. The calculated results revealed the following: (1) The average maximum lake-water area of the Wuhan urban agglomeration was 2262.17 km 2 from 1987 to 2002, and it decreased to 2020.78 km 2 from 2005 to 2015, with a loss of 241.39 km 2 (10.67%). (2) The lake-water areas of loss of Wuhan, Huanggang, Xianning, and Xiaogan cities, were 114.83 km 2 , 44.40 km 2 , 45.39 km 2 , and 31.18 km 2 , respectively, with percentages of loss of 14.30%, 11.83%, 13.16%, and 23.05%, respectively. (3) The lake-water areas in the Wuhan urban agglomeration were 226.29 km 2 , 322.71 km 2 , 460.35 km 2 , 400.79 km 2 , 535.51 km 2 , and 635.42 km 2 under water inundation frequencies of 5%-10%, 10%-20%, 20%-40%, 40%-60%, 60%-80%, and 80%-100%, respectively. The Wuhan urban agglomeration was approved as the pilot area for national comprehensive reform, for promoting resource-saving and environmentally friendly developments. This study could be used as guidance for lake protection and water resource management.

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Ecosystem Services Derived from Wetland Conservation Practices in the United States Prairie Pothole Region with an Emphasis on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Conservation Reserve and Wetlands Reserve Programs

Cited by 113 publications

References 38 publications

Land use and wetland drainage affect water levels and dynamics of remaining wetlands

Land use and wetland drainage affect water levels and dynamics of remaining wetlands

Prototyping an online wetland ecosystem services model using open model sharing standards

Spatio-Temporal Change of Lake Water Extent in Wuhan Urban Agglomeration Based on Landsat Images from 1987 to 2015

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