Emerging themes and future directions in watershed resilience research

Miralles‐Wilhelm, Fernando; Matthews, John; Karres, Nathan; Abell, Robin; Dalton, James; Kang, Shiteng; Liu, Junguo; Maendly, Romain; Matthews, Nathanial; McDonald, Robert I.; Muñoz-Castillo, R.; Ochoa‐Tocachi, B. F.; Pradhan, Neera; Vigerstøl, Kari; Wesenbeeck, Bregje K. van

doi:10.1016/j.wasec.2022.100132

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“…Various disturbances within a watershed such as land degradation [2], biodiversity loss [3], and climate change, are strong drivers of watershed problems [4]. Each watershed has the capacity to respond to these disturbances [5]. These situations have led to the importance of watershed management that is suitable for its characteristics to ensure the sustainability of a watershed [5,6].…”

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Towards adaptive watershed management: a new era of watershed management in the Anthropocene

Malawani,

Rhosadi,

Rachmadan

et al. 2024

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The main objective of watershed management is to conserve land and forest. However, the paradigm of watershed management has also changed and shifted to address the existing challenges. In particular, since the Anthropocene, watershed management has become a critical topic of attention as human pressures to environment have increased. The alternative is to defend against the escalating pressures or to adapt further. Three goals can be considered as the key pillars of watershed management: biodiversity protection, land preservation, and climate change adaptation. The ultimate objective is to achieve healthy watershed. The various approaches in watershed management can be categorized into three main groups: fragmented, integrated, and comprehensive watershed management. The highest level is the adaptive approach, which promotes flexibility, learning and adjusting. However, up to now not many have adopted this approach for watershed management. Indonesia might be entered the decentralization stage, and with a little improvement it can achieve the adaptive approach. We also suggest that an adaptive approach needs to be promoted in watershed management, especially during the current era, i.e., the Anthropocene. Accordingly, quality assurance cycles such as PDCA (plan-do-check-action) can be applied in the adaptive approach. This cycle can be applied to prepare the further management by adjusting and adapting previous management to improve the quality and sustainability of the next watershed management programs.

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“…Each watershed has the capacity to respond to these disturbances [5]. These situations have led to the importance of watershed management that is suitable for its characteristics to ensure the sustainability of a watershed [5,6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards adaptive watershed management: a new era of watershed management in the Anthropocene

Malawani,

Rhosadi,

Rachmadan

et al. 2024

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…Thus, a mismatch in the available spatial representation of key hydrological features -especially in landscapes with complex interactions of anthropogenic and natural waterways and storageobstructs a thorough exploration of especially subsurface processes in catchment modelling. This is an issue, as evidence of synergies between engineeredand nature-based solutions to sustain effects of climate change on hydrological pathways is lacking (Miralles-Wilhelm et al, 2023). Thus, this paper explores the availability of high-resolution spatial data for developing the descriptions of hydrological functions in agricultural landscapes.…”

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Improving Spatial Resolution in Soil and Drainage Data to Combine Natural and Anthropogenic Water Functions at Catchment Scale in Agricultural Landscapes

Malmquist¹,

Barron

2023

Preprint

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“…The rapidly increasing global population and the associated growth of urban centres and pollution of the environment are profoundly altering freshwater ecosystems [1,2]. Runoff from urban and farming landscapes can serve as sources of trace element contaminants in freshwater sediments, where they associate strongly with particulate matter and accumulate over time [3,4].…”

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Copper Contamination Affects the Biogeochemical Cycling of Nitrogen in Freshwater Sediment Mesocosms

Tomoiye,

Huang,

Lehto

2023

Sustainability

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Trace elements can have a wide variety of effects on microbial populations and their function in the aquatic environment. However, specific impacts on chemical and biological processes are often difficult to unravel, due to the wide variety of chemical species involved and interactions between different elemental cycles. A replicated mesocosm experiment was used to test the effect of increasing copper concentrations, i.e., from 6 mg kg−1 to 30 and 120 mg kg−1, on nitrogen cycling in a freshwater sediment under laboratory conditions. Nitrous oxide emissions from the treated sediments were measured over three consecutive 24 h periods. This was followed by measurements of iron, manganese, copper and mineral nitrogen species (nitrate and ammonium) mobilisation in the sediments using the diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) and diffusive equilibria in thin films (DET) techniques and sequential extractions. Increasing copper concentrations are shown to have resulted in significantly reduced nitrate formation near the sediment–water interface and increased nitrous oxide emissions from the sediment overall. The concomitant mobilisation and sequestration of iron with ammonium in the sediment with the highest Cu treatment strongly imply links between the biogeochemical cycles of the two elements. Modest Cu contamination was shown to affect the nitrogen cycle in the tested freshwater sediment, which suggests that even relatively small loads of the metal in fresh watercourses can exert an influence on nutrient loads and greenhouse gas emissions from these environments.

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Emerging themes and future directions in watershed resilience research

Cited by 10 publications

References 68 publications

Towards adaptive watershed management: a new era of watershed management in the Anthropocene

Towards adaptive watershed management: a new era of watershed management in the Anthropocene

Improving Spatial Resolution in Soil and Drainage Data to Combine Natural and Anthropogenic Water Functions at Catchment Scale in Agricultural Landscapes

Copper Contamination Affects the Biogeochemical Cycling of Nitrogen in Freshwater Sediment Mesocosms

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