Catchment interactions

Integrated catchment modelling: an application to Molenbeek catchment, Belgium

Hydrological, hydrodynamic and water quality models are often used to simulate surface water in a correct way to be a good basis for decisions regarding the development and management of water resources. Molenbeek is one of the main tributaries of the River Dender basin (Belgium). The hydraulic model is implemented by using the MIKE 11 software of the Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI). It is a v...

Catchment vegetation and temperature mediating trophic interactions and production in plankton communities

Climatic factors influence the interactions among trophic levels in an ecosystem in multiple ways. However, whereas most studies focus on single factors in isolation, mainly due to interrelation and correlation among drivers complicating interpretation and analyses, there are still only few studies on how multiple ecosystems respond to climate related factors at the same time. Here, we use a hi...

Climate-vegetation-soil interactions and long-term hydrologic partitioning: signatures of catchment co-evolution

Budyko (1974) postulated that long-term catchment water balance is controlled to first order by the available water and energy. This leads to the interesting question of how do landscape characteristics (soils, geology, vegetation) and climate properties (precipitation, potential evaporation, number of wet and dry days) interact at the catchment scale to produce such a simple and predictable ou...

Lake-catchment interactions with climate in the low Arctic of southern West Greenland

Catchment Area – Heavy Metals

2 IMMISSION ANALYSIS ................................................................................................... 26 2.1 Theoretical background.................................................................................................. 26 2.2 Results of immission analysis......................................................................................... 29 2.3 Summary and con...