Recent findings in the Umpqua River Basin in southwestern Oregon illustrate a tension in the rise of both community-based and watershed-based approaches to aquatic resource management. While community-based institutions such as watershed councils offer relief from the government control landowners dislike, community-based approaches impinge on landowners' strong belief in independence and priva...

watershed scale irnpact. Our objective was to estimate the watershed scale impact of grass buEers by comparing sediment and agichemical losses from two adjacent 14 1 165 hectare watersheds, one with conservation buffers and one without. Rainfall derived m o f f events frorn 2002-2003 were monitored for water runoff, TSS, phosphorous and atrazine loss. A conservation-watershed included 0.8 Ism o...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The watershed cortical areas are the first to be deprived of sufficient blood flow in the event of cerebral hypoperfusion and will be the sites of watershed microinfarcts. Cerebral hypoperfusion is associated with Alzheimer disease (AD), but information regarding the occurrence of watershed cortical infarcts in AD is lacking. METHODS Brains of 184 autopsy cases (105 def...

Precipitation is very important to the formation of runoff, and studying of runoff variation and its response to precipitation has practical significance to sustainable utilization of water resources. The study used Mann-Kendall test, anomaly accumulation method, and precipitation elasticity of runoff method to analyze the changes in the relation of precipitation and runoff and the contribution...

In this paper, we investigate the links between the flooding paradigm and the topological watershed. Guided by the analysis of a classical flooding algorithm, we present several notions that lead us to a better understanding of the watershed: minima extension, mosaic, pass value and separation. We first make a detailed examination of the effectiveness of the divide set produced by watershed alg...

Watershed transform is a key operator in video segmentation algorithms. However, the computation load of watershed transform is too large for real-time applications. In this paper, a new fast watershed algorithm, named P-Watershed, for image sequence segmentation is proposed. By utilizing the temporal coherence property of the video signal, this algorithm updates watersheds instead of searching...

This paper is an overview of this special issue devoted to watershed research in Acadia National Park (Acadia NP). The papers address components of an integrated research program on two upland watersheds at Acadia NP, USA (44 degrees 20' N latitude; 68 degrees 15' E longitude). These watersheds were instrumented in 1998 to provide a long-term foundation for regional ecological and watershed res...

The shrinking Baiyangdian Lake and drying up rivers are widely observed in recent years. Due to the significant advantages in integrated analyses of natural and economic systems, emergy analysis is introduced in this paper to assess the health status of Baiyangdian Watershed. First, we establish a emergy based conceptual framework for the assessment, delineate an emergy flow diagram of Baiyangd...

In fall (November 2005) and winter (February 2006), we collected current-year foliage of native red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) growing in a reference watershed and in a watershed treated in 1999 with wollastonite (CaSiO(3), a slow-release calcium source) to simulate preindustrial soil calcium concentrations (Ca-addition watershed) at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (Thornton, NH). We ana...

4 Watershed modeling requires accurate estimates of precipitation, however in some cases 5 it is necessary to simulate streamflow in a watershed for which there is no precipitation gauge 6 records within close proximity to the watershed. For such cases, we propose an approach for 7 estimating watershed-scale precipitation by combining (or fusing) gauge-based precipitation 8 time series with rad...