Linking Critical Zone Water Storage and Ecosystems

Linking Water Quality and Quantity in Environmental Flow Assessment in Deteriorated Ecosystems: A Food Web View

Most rivers worldwide are highly regulated by anthropogenic activities through flow regulation and water pollution. Environmental flow regulation is used to reduce the effects of anthropogenic activities on aquatic ecosystems. Formulating flow alteration-ecological response relationships is a key factor in environmental flow assessment. Traditional environmental flow models are characterized by...

Modelling carbon and water flows in terrestrial ecosystems in the boreal zone – examples from Oskarshamn

This report concerns a study which was conducted for SKB. The conclusions and viewpoints presented in the report are those of the authors and do not necessarily coincide with those of the client.

Water-storage capacity controls energy partitioning and water use in karst ecosystems on the Edwards Plateau, Texas

James L. Heilman,* Marcy E. Litvak, Kevin J. McInnes, James F. Kjelgaard, Ray H. Kamps and Susanne Schwinning 1 Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2474, USA 2 Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001, USA 3 Natural Resources Conservation Service, Corpus Christi, TX 78410-4466, USA 4 Department of Biology, Tex...

Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory

Carbon storage in Ghanaian cocoa ecosystems

BACKGROUND The recent inclusion of the cocoa sector as an option for carbon storage necessitates the need to quantify the C stocks in cocoa systems of Ghana. RESULTS Using farmers' fields, the carbon (C) stocks in shaded and unshaded cocoa systems selected from the Eastern (ER) and Western (WR) regions of Ghana were measured. Total ecosystem C (biomass C + soil C to 60 cm depth) ranged from 8...