In‐channel large woody debris (LWD) promotes quality aquatic habitat through sediment sorting, pool scouring and in‐stream nutrient retention and transport. LWD recruitment occurs by numerous ecological and geomorphic mechanisms including channel migration, mass wasting and natural tree fall, yet LWD sourcing on the watershed scale remains poorly constrained.We developed a rapid and spatially e...

In the natural environment, microbial community structure of river biofilm is controlled by biotic and abiotic factors. This study explored the capacity to manipulate the structure of microbial communities by modifying environmental conditions during the course of biofilm development. River epilithic biofilm was cultivated in situ on artificial substrates placed parallel to river water flow. Su...

Riverine dams alter both the physical environment and water chemistry, thus affecting species assemblages within these environments. In the United States, dam construction is on the decline and there is a growing trend for dam removal. The Choctawhatchee, Pea, and Yellow Rivers Watershed Management Authority had initiated the permitting process for placing a reservoir dam on the Little Choctawh...

This report describes the development and application of an updated version of the Multi-Scale Assessment of Watershed Integrity (MAWI) approach for watershed assessment. This work demonstrated the approach’s capabilities as an assessment and planning tool using parts of the MAWI model developed for the Russian River watershed in northern California. The report also discusses the possibility of...

This paper describes the development of a comprehensive subcatchment parameterization method for medium and large-scale watershed modelling based upon the fully distributed WetSpa model. A simplified approach is used in order to take advantage of the existing spatial analysis function within ArcView GIS and its Spatial Analyst and hydrological modelling extensions. The model combines elevation,...

rainfall and flow rate are of the most important climatic and hydrologic parameters whose investigation and determination of their behavior are of great importance in water resources management. one of the most suitable methods available for assessment of hydro-climatological conditions in the watershed is trend analysis which is used to examine the changes of a variable during time. current st...

Currently one small, native population of the culturally and ecologically important Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi, LCT, Federally listed) remains in the Truckee River watershed of northwestern Nevada and northeastern California. The majority of populations in this watershed were extirpated in the 1940s due to invasive species, overharvest, anthropogenic water consumpti...

Abstract In recent years, it has become popular for some of countries and regions to adapt the system governance varied complex issues concerned with regional development environment. Watershed management is possibly best example this. It involves flood control, water use river environment simultaneously. Therefore, comprehensive watershed-based should be aimed at balancing those aims. The obje...

In this paper we propose an algorithm and associated data model for creating a watershed boundary using a 2D Flow Direction Grid. Flow Direction Grids (FDGs) are common abstractions for hydrodynamic models and are utilized for delineating physical systems (e.g. watersheds, fluvial, and non-fluvial flow paths). The proposed algorithm and associated data model provides geometric speed increases i...

Water changes information in the hydrological system, in time and space, as an environmental issue takes heed of managers and decision makers in watershed management and river engineering, which can be addressed by using spatially distributed modeling. In this study simulation of water balance components in Taleghan mountainous watershed is performed using the spatially distributed hydrological...