Patterns of Wetland Hydrology in the Ridge and Valley Province, Pennsylvania, Usa

Aboveground decomposition dynamics in riparian depression and slope wetlands of central Pennsylvania

“…Slope wetlands are also primarily groundwater-fed (though they may receive a mixture of ground and surface water) but are located on a topographic slope, occurring either as toe of slope wetlands or from seeps and springs on ridge (Brinson 1993b;Cole et al 1997). Cole and Brooks (2000) found riparian depressions to be the wettest sites of the four commonly occurring subclasses in central Pennsylvania, to have a small range of hydrologic behavior, and to have a generally shallow median depth to water. Slope wetlands generally exhibit considerably dryer conditions and have a deeper median depth to water than riparian depressions.…”

“…Slope wetlands generally exhibit considerably dryer conditions and have a deeper median depth to water than riparian depressions. These two subclasses, therefore, are known to be hydrologically distinct from one another (Cole et al 1997(Cole et al , 2008Cole and Brooks 2000).…”

“…There has been some work using HGM to organize and understand wetland function, most notably hydrology (e.g., Shaffer et al 1999;Cole and Brooks 2000), and stressors such as sedimentation (Wardrop and Brooks 1998), but there have been few empirical studies investigating functional differences between HGM classes. For HGM to be most useful as a classification tool, it is critical for wetland managers to have the ability to derive some understanding of wetland function based on a wetland's designation into a subclass (Cole et al 1997).…”

Draft Technical Protocol for Characterizing Natural Attenuation of Chlorinated Solvent Ground-Water Plumes Discharging into Wetlands

“…A popular hydrogeomorphic approach classifies wetlands according to the location of the wetland in the landscape and the dominant sources of water for the wetland ( fig. 3) (Brinson, 1993;Richardson 1999;Cole and Brooks, 2000). A similar approach to classifying wetland function considers hydrogeologic setting and climate (Winter, 1992;Winter, 2001;Winter and others, 2001).…”

Operational Actual Wetland Evapotranspiration Estimation for South Florida Using MODIS Imagery

“…Stating the importance of water to the well-being of wetlands seems obvious (and it is), yet the ways hydrological variables affect wetland ecology are varied and sometimes much more nuanced than assumed. It is known that hydrological variables such as water flow velocity, flow duration, flow variability, hydroperiod, and evapotranspiration play important roles in the ecosystem dynamics of wetlands (Cole and Brooks, 2000;Gurnell et al, 2000;Price et al, 2000;Melesse et al 2006Melesse et al , 2007. Water impacts several major aspects of wetland health including soil composition (Faulkner, 1989;Venterink, 2002), vegetation cover (van der Valk, 1994Todd, 2010;Cooper, 2012), and wildlife diversity (Bunn, 2002;Davidson, 2012;Konar, 2013).…”