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Distributed ecohydrological modeling: the potential for water resources
management
Larry Band, UNC
Christina Tague, SDSU
Characteristics of watersheds regulating biogeochemical cycling and export
• In situ cycling of carbon and nutrients
• Ecosystem Processes: deposition/fixation, assimilation, uptake, decomposition, mineralization, nitrification, immobilization, denitrification, and all that….
• Transport within hydrologic flowpaths
• Hydrologic Processes: overland flow, shallow throughflow, groundwater flow,….
•Distribution of net source/sink strength along flowpaths
Plot based ecosystem models
• water, carbon, nutrient flux computed in 1-d
• long time step (one day to one month)
• long time domain (decades to centuries) incorporating long term feedbacks to ecosystem state
• typically run without consideration of spatial heterogeneity
• no incorporation of spatial dependency along flowpaths
Dynamic BGC
Nitrogen saturation hypothesis:• Definition: Terrestrial ecosystems have a maximum rate of nitrogen uptake determined by the net ecosystem productivity and other (plot) N sinks, input exceeding this rate may leach to ...
• Streamwater chemistry diagnostics:
• ecosystem saturation stage diagnosed by streamwater chemistry, particularly in growing season
• Based on plot paradigm: assumes leaching below rooting zone is contributed directly to streams
Watershed model:
• e.g. HSPF - works well for discharge based on land use
• also typically fix nutrient loading from land surface classes
• lumped models cannot address downslope divergence (variable nutrient source/sink strength along flowpaths)
• adjust for BMPs with reduction factor
• no feedback to ecosystem processes controlling source quality
Oregon Ridge
5 0 5 10 Kilometers
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Baltimore Ecosystem Study: Urban LTER
Infrastructure impacts on flowpaths
Characteristics of watersheds regulating biogeochemical cycling and export:
anthropogenic alteration
• direct addition or abstraction of material
• irrigation, fertilization, spills
• wastewater treatment and disposal
• alteration of hydrologic flowpaths
• impermeable surfaces
• street drainage
• storm and sanitary sewers
• vegetation management
RIPARIAN ZONES
• Critical interface between terrestrial and aquatic components of a watershed.
• Demonstrated ability to prevent pollutant movement from upland land uses into streams.
• Most work on groundwater nitrate, in agricultural watersheds.
Denitrification
NO3- NO2
- NO N2O N2
- Anaerobic
- Heterotrophic (requires organic C)
• Expect high rates in wetland soils.
• Key component of the water quality maintenance function of riparian zones.
Model and data flow structure
RHESSys Object Hierarchy
Basin/hillslope/patch hierarchy
Major carbon flux processes: patch level
• Photosynthesis: Farquhar algorithm combining conductance and enzymatic limitations
• Stomatal physiology: Conductance uses Jarvis method f(temp, LWP, PAR, VPD)
• Respiration: Organ (foliage, root, stem) specific rates (massC/massC) modified by temperature Q10
• Allocation: Root, stem, foliar allocation of net photosynthate determined by Waring/Landsberg function on water, nutrient stress, and carbon supply
• Litter decomposition: litter/soil moisture, T, quality determines rates from different soil pools
Daily carbon flux (g.m-2day-1): Upland plot, Pond Branch
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Observed Nitrate Conc. Simulated Nitrate Conc.
Nitrate export from Pond Branch: Note large increase in concentrations during summer - partially derived from riparian zones
Denitrification rates during summer and winter for hillslope 1
NO3 export concentrations as f(hydrology)
• riparian patches typically near saturation, anaerobic, active denitrifying zones
• significant reduction of [NO3] from upslope
• low decomposition, accumulates carbon, nutrient rich material
• during dry-downs riparian patches
• may disconnect from uplands, WFPS drops
• become aerobic, strongly nitrify
• flip from sink to source of NO3
• note: growing season NO3 export not related to catchment nitrogen saturation