Simulating the water budget of a Prairie Potholes complex from LiDAR and hydrological models in North Dakota, USA

Huang, Shengli; Young, Claudia; Abdul‐Aziz, Omar I.; Dahal, Devendra; Feng, Min

doi:10.1080/02626667.2013.831419

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“…Lateral loss is represented in equation as a function of a reference recession slope of 0.04 m 2 /day S RR , the daily potential evapotranspiration PET t , a reference evaporation E R of 4.7 mm/day, and the wetland perimeter p t . The value of the factor ω was set to be 0.90 as in Huang et al ().

G_{t} = \frac{ω S_{RR} PE T_{t}}{E_{R}} \cdot p_{t}

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“…Soil Conservation Service, ) modified to incorporate antecedent moisture. The full details of this derivation are covered in (Huang et al, ) and were implemented exactly to that specification. Each watershed was assigned a curve number CN i at random from 49 to 89 to allow for a range of runoff responses representative of grasslands (CN = 49) to cultivated fields (CN = 89).…”

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Identifying Wetland Consolidation Using Remote Sensing in the North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region

Krapu

Kumar

Borsuk

2018

Water Resources Research

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Artificial drainage of wetlands in the Great Plains has been linked to increased runoff, erosion, and the consolidation of small, seasonal wetlands into larger, more permanent bodies of water. We analyzed hydrologic changes to over 1.2 million water bodies across the entire North Dakota portion of the Prairie Pothole Region using the ratio of aggregate water area and total perimetric length in a landscape‐scale shape index calculated from existing Landsat derived data of water presence/absence. This ratio showed a clear change point toward more consolidation of wetlands around the period 1999 (±1 year) after an extended multiyear period of above‐average rainfall. We used hydrologic simulations with forcing data from across the region to show that this shift is unlikely to be due solely to natural variation in precipitation and evapotranspiration. Using county‐level regressions, we found that wetland consolidation as measured by the shape index was highly correlated with agricultural transitions out of wheat and into corn and soybeans over the period 1984–2014 (R2 > 0.4), though we do not find evidence of a strong correlation between reported drainage and wetland consolidation. These results highlight a potential hysteretic interaction involving interannual variations in hydrologic forcing and anthropogenic landscape alterations on wetland consolidation in the North Dakota prairie potholes.

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G_{t} = \frac{ω S_{RR} PE T_{t}}{E_{R}} \cdot p_{t}

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Identifying Wetland Consolidation Using Remote Sensing in the North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region

Krapu

Kumar

Borsuk

2018

Water Resources Research

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“…Evapotranspiration is calculated using the Hamon Equation for potential evapotranspiration [77]. Shallow groundwater losses are accounted for using the equation from Huang et al [78]. Overland spill occurs when the water level of the wetland pond reaches a low point in the divide between adjacent catchments.…”

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Synergistic Interaction of Climate and Land-Use Drivers Alter the Function of North American, Prairie-Pothole Wetlands

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Prairie-pothole wetlands provide the critical habitat necessary for supporting North American migratory waterfowl populations. However, climate and land-use change threaten the sustainability of these wetland ecosystems. Very few experiments and analyses have been designed to investigate the relative impacts of climate and land-use change drivers, as well as the antagonistic or synergistic interactions among these drivers on ecosystem processes. Prairie-pothole wetland water budgets are highly dependent on atmospheric inputs and especially surface runoff, which makes them especially susceptible to changes in climate and land use. Here, we present the history of prairie-pothole climate and land-use change research and address the following research questions: 1) What are the relative effects of climate and land-use change on the sustainability of prairie-pothole wetlands? and 2) Do the effects of climate and land-use change interact differently under different climatic conditions? To address these research questions, we modeled 25 wetland basins and measured the response of the lowest wetland in the watershed to wetland drainage and climate variability. We found that during an extremely wet period (1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000) wetland drainage decreased the time at which the lowest wetland reached its spill point by four years, resulting in 10 times the amount of water spilling out of the watershed towards local stream networks. By quantifying the relative effects of both climate and land-use drivers on wetland ecosystems our findings can help managers cope with uncertainties about flooding risks and provide insight into how to manage wetlands to restore functionality.Sustainability 2019, 11, 6581 2 of 20 and biological (e.g., vegetation and aquatic macroinvertebrate communities) variables of interest in areas where vulnerable wetlands that have been well documented as a "disappearing ecosystem" [4].The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) covers approximately 777,000 km 2 of the North American midcontinent (Figure 1). Over half of the historical wetlands in the PPR have been drained, and conversion of upland areas to crops has altered wetland functioning and the ecosystem services provided by wetlands [5]. Millions of small, glacially derived wetlands that provide critical habitat for migratory waterfowl [5] and other wetland-dependent species [6,7] occur in the PPR, making it a continentally significant region for biodiversity [8]. The wetlands of the PPR also provide additional ecosystem services such as floodwater storage, sediment reduction, water-quality improvement [9], and carbon sequestration [10]. The need to tease apart the complexity caused by interactions between climate and land-use change drivers and how they affect biodiversity, in general, has been recently established as a pressing research priority for ecosystem scientists and land managers [2]. Understanding the relative impacts of climate and land-use change on wetland hydrology is critical for developing land-management strategies...

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“…The new high-resolution DTMs correctly identify depressions and low points in the landscape ( Figure 2), which could potentially provide water storage. Huang et al (2013) inter alia have developed methods to identify depressions in the landscape on the basis of high-resolution DTM and have created new algorithms to simulate flood propagation across ponds and depressions. These algorithms offer the potential to identify flood water storage potential at a much higher resolution than previously possible.…”

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Realising the potential of natural water retention measures in catchment flood management: trade‐offs and matching interests

Collentine

Futter

2016

J Flood Risk Management

106

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Natural water retention measures (NWRM) are a multifunctional form of green infrastructure that can play an important role in catchment‐scale flood risk management. While green infrastructure based on natural processes is increasingly recognised as being complementary to traditional flood control strategies based on grey infrastructure in urban areas, there are a number of outstanding challenges with their widespread uptake. At a catchment scale, it is widely accepted that NWRM in upstream areas based on the concept of ‘keeping the rain where it falls’ can help reduce the risk of downstream flooding by enhancing or restoring natural hydrological processes including interception, evapotranspiration, infiltration, and ponding. However, both the magnitude of flood risk reduction and the institutional structures needed for widespread uptake of NWRM are inadequately understood. Implementing NWRM can involve trade‐offs, especially in agricultural areas. Measures based on drainage management and short rotation forestry may help ‘keep the rain where it falls’ but can result in foregone farm income. To identify situations where the implementation of NWRM may be warranted, an improved understanding of the likely reductions in downstream urban flood risk, the required institutional structures for risk management and transfer, and mutually acceptable farm compensation schemes are all needed.

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Simulating the water budget of a Prairie Potholes complex from LiDAR and hydrological models in North Dakota, USA

Cited by 23 publications

References 46 publications

Identifying Wetland Consolidation Using Remote Sensing in the North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region

Identifying Wetland Consolidation Using Remote Sensing in the North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region

Synergistic Interaction of Climate and Land-Use Drivers Alter the Function of North American, Prairie-Pothole Wetlands

Realising the potential of natural water retention measures in catchment flood management: trade‐offs and matching interests

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