Future shifts in climatic conditions may impact watershed mercury (Hg) dynamics and transport. An ensemble of watershed models was applied in the present study to simulate and evaluate the responses of hydrological and total Hg (THg) fluxes from the landscape to the watershed outlet and in-stream THg concentrations to contrasting climate change projections for a watershed in the southeastern co...

The agriculture in low rainfall areas of eastern Rajasthan, India is characterized by high risks from drought, degraded natural resources and pervasive poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition. In this region, water is the main limiting factor for upgrading rainfed agriculture. For such areas integrated watershed management is recognized as a potential approach for agriculture growth and rehab...

Forest operations engineering deals with all the essential infrastructure aiming at efficient management of forested areas, which constitutes a prerequisite for development mountainous economies. Thus, need addressing this objective in an effective way, conjunction other issues associated protection and preservation forest wealth, is utmost importance. There are whole range decision-making web-...

In 1996, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Republic of Panama's Environmental Authority, with support from the United States Agency for International Development, undertook a comprehensive program to monitor the ecosystem of the Panama Canal watershed. The goals were to establish baseline indicators for the integrity of forest communities and rivers. Based on satellite image c...

Traditionally watersheds were spatial extents that capture rainwater. Recently it has been identified that unless the watersheds are not managed in an integrated sustainable manner, then not only the water resources but also other resources such as vegetation, fertile soil, fauna and flora get depleted. Rational management of upper and lower parts of a watershed is equally important for the sus...

This paper focuses the quantitative evaluation of non point sources of pollution by graphical maps of watershed and estimating area based load of pollutants of various land uses with the use of Arc/View Geographic Information System. The representative study is carried out in the Xinshan sub-watershed of Taihu watershed. It involves the simulation of pollutants load by watershed; watershed area...

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We used more than thirty years of water quality monitoring data collected by the United States Geological Survey at several stations in the Altamaha River and its tributaries to examine the relationship between population density, agricultural land use, and nutrient export from the watershed. Population densities in the Altamaha River watershed increased during the study period, most notably in...

1. INTRODUCTION As watershed models become increasingly sophisticated and useful, there is a need to extend their applicability to locations where they cannot be calibrated or validated. It is only natural that as watershed models, computer technology and hydrometeorologic data sources continue to evolve, there will be an ever increasing need to apply watershed models where streamflow data is u...