Title | ||
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Contribution of rainfall vs . water management to Mediterranean wetland hydrology: Development of an interactive simulation tool to foster adaptation to climate variability |
Abstract | ||
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Mediterranean wetlands are increasingly managed to maintain their functions and services following modification in water allocation, embankment and climate change, calling for proactive and adaptive water management. In a first step, we used long-term monitoring of water levels in 37 adjacent embanked marshes in the Camargue as a repeated non-controlled experiment to build a hydrological model. Without information on water input/output by marsh users, we could nevertheless estimate evapotranspiration under flooding and dry conditions, and soil water coefficient. The model provided a high predictive accuracy (adjusted R2 = 0.73–0.83) of monthly water levels when applied to an independent sample of 12 marshes. In a second step we developed an interactive decision-aid tool that allows users to visualize the impact of their management strategy (desired water level at a specific month) on subsequent water levels, and their consequence on different components of the ecosystem over a 10-yr period. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.08.004 | Environmental Modelling & Software |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Decision-aid tool,Hydrology modelling,Mediterranean marsh,Mar-O-Sel,Phragmites australis,Water level monitoring,Wetland management | Journal | 74 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1364-8152 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
3 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Gaëtan Lefebvre | 1 | 0 | 1.01 |
Christophe Germain | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
Brigitte Poulin | 3 | 0 | 1.01 |