Assessing cumulative impacts of levees and dams on floodplain ponds: A neutral-terrain model approach

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1740-1754

  Gergel, Sarah E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dams; Flood magnitude; Floodplain; Levees; Neutral terrain model; Temporary pond; Wetlands; Wisconsin River

Indexed keywords

DAM; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROPERIOD; LEVEE; RIVER ENGINEERING;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN; WISCONSIN RIVER;

EID: 0036990854     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1740:ACIOLA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Abbruzzese, B., and S. G. Leibowitz. 1997. A synoptic approach for assessing the cumulative impacts to wetlands. Environmental Management 21(3):457-475.
2. Alsdorf, D. E., J. M. Melack, T. Dunne, L. A. K. Mertes, L. L. Hess, and L. C. Smith. 2000. Interferometric radar measurements of water level changes on the Amazon floodplain. Nature 404:174-177.
3. Bates, P. D., M. Horritt, and J.-M. Hervouet. 1998. Investigating two-dimensional, finite element predictions of floodplain inundation using fractal generated topography. Hydrological Processes 12:1257-1277.
4. Bedford, B. L., and E. M. Preston, editors. 1988. Cumulative effects on landscape systems of wetlands: scientific status, prospects and regulatory perspectives. Environmental Management 12(5):561-775.
5. Belt, C. B., Jr. 1975. The 1973 flood and man's constriction of the Mississippi River, Science 189:681-684.
6. Benke, A. C., I. Chaubey, G. M. Ward, and E. L. Dunn. 2000. Flood pulse dynamics of an unregulated river floodplains in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain. Ecology 81:2730-2741.
7. Breitburg, D., S. Seitzinger, and J. Sanders, guest editors. 1999. The effects of multiple stressors on freshwater and marine ecosystems. Special Issue of Limnology and Oceanography 44:739-972.
8. Brinson, M. 1993. Changes in the functioning of wetlands along environmental gradients. Wetlands 13:65-74.
9. Casanova, M. T., and M. A. Brock. 2000. How do depth, duration and frequency of flooding influence the establishment of wetland plant communities? Plant Ecology 147(2): 237-250.
10. Corti, D., S. L. Kohler, and R. E. Sparks. 1997. Effects of hydroperiod and predation on a Mississippi River floodplain invertebrate community. Oecologia 109(1):154-165.
11. Dodd, C. K. 1992. Biological diversity of a temporary pond herpeto fauna in North Florida sandhills. Biodiversity and Conservation 1(3):125-142.
12. Dodds, P. S., and D. H. Rothman. 2000. Scaling, universality and geomorphology. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 28:571-610.
13. Dynesius, M., and C. Nilsson. 1994. Fragmentation and flow regulation of river systems in the northern third of the world. Science 266:753-762.
14. ESRI. 2000. Understanding GIS: the ARC/INFO method. Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, California, USA.
15. Evans, I. S. 1998. What do terrain statistics really mean? Pages 119-138 in S. Lane, K. Richards, and J. Chandler, editors. Landform monitoring, modeling and terrain analysis. John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, USA.
16. Farnsworth, R. K., E. S, Thompson, and E. L. Peck. 1982. Evaporation atlas for the contiguous 48 United States. NOAA Technical Report NWS 33. National Weather Service, Washington, D.C., USA.
17. Fitzpatrick, F. A., J. C. Knox, and H. E. Whitman. 1999. Effects of historical land-cover changes on flooding and sedimentation, North Fish Creek, Wisconsin, U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 99-4083.
18. Freeze, R. A., and J. A. Cherry. 1979. Groundwater. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
19. Gardner, R. H. 1999. RULE: map generation and spatial analysis program. Pages 280-303 in J. M. Klopatek and R. H. Gardner, editors. Landscape ecological analysis: issues and applications. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.
20. Gardner, R. H., B. T. Milne, M. G. Turner, and R. V. O'Neill. 1987. Neutral models for the analysis of broad-scale landscape pattern. Landscape Ecology 1:19-28.
21. Gergel, S. E., M. D. Dixon, and M. G. Turner. 2002. Consequences of human-altered floods: levees, floods, and floodplain forests along the Wisconsin River. Ecological Applications 12:1755-1770.
22. Goodchild, M. F. 1988. Lakes on fractal surfaces: a null hypothesis for lake-rich landscapes. Mathematical Geology 20(6):615-630.
23. Gosselink, J. G., G. P. Shaffer, and L. C. Lee. 1990. Landscape conservation in a forested wetland watershed - can we manage cumulative impacts? BioScience 40:588-600.
24. Hamilton, S. K., J. M. Melack, M. F. Goodchild, and W. M. Lewis. 1992. Estimating the fractal dimension of terrain from lake size distributions. Pages 145-163 in R A. Carling and G. E. Petts, editors. Lowland floodplain rivers: geomorphological perspectives. John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, USA.
25. Holling, C. S., and S. Sanderson. 1996. Dynamics of (dis)harmony in ecological and social systems. Pages 57-58 in S. S Hanna, C. Folke, and C. G. Maler, editors. Rights to nature. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
26. Johnston Associates. 1989. A status report on the nation's floodplain management activity: an interim report prepared for Interagency Task Force on Floodplain Management. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., USA.
27. Keitt, T H. 2000. Spectral representation of neutral landscapes. Landscape Ecology 15:479-493.
28. Kent, C., and J. Wong. 1982. An index of littoral zone complexity and its measurement. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 39:847-853.
29. Krug, W. R., and L. B. House. 1980. Streamflow model of Wisconsin River for estimating flood frequency and volume. Water-resources investigations, open file report 80-11031. U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
30. Leeper, D. A., and B. E. Taylor. 1998. Abundance, biomass, and production of aquatic invertebrates in Rainbow Bay, a temporary wetland in South Carolina, USA. Archiv for Hydrobiologie 143(3):335-362.
31. Lewis, W. M., Jr., E H. Weibezahn, J. E Saunders, and S. Hamilton. 1990. The Orinoco as an ecological system. Interciencia 15:346-357.
32. Marks, K., and P. Bates. 2000. Integration of high-resolution topographic data with floodplain flow models. Hydrological Processes 14:2109-2122.
33. McCold, L. M., and J. W. Saulsbury. 1996. Including past and present impacts in cumulative impact assessments. Environmental Management 20:767-776.
34. McDonald, M. G., and A. W. Harbaugh. 1988. Techniques of water resources investigations of the United States Geological Survey. Book 6: modeling techniques. Chapter AI: a modular three-dimensional finite-difference ground-water flow model. Unites States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., USA.
35. Mitsch, W. J., and J. G. Gosselink. 1993. Wetlands. VanNostrand Reinhold, New York, New York, USA.
36. Murkin, H. R., E. J. Murkin, and J. P. Ball. 1997. Avian habitat selection and prairie wetland dynamics: a 10-year experiment. Ecological Applications 7:114-1159.
37. Nestler, J. M., and K. S. Long. 1997. Development of hydrological indices to aid cumulative impact analysis of riverine wetlands. Regulated Rivers: Research and Management 13:317-334.
38. Nilsson, C., R. Jannson, and U. Zinko. 1997. Long-term responses of river-margin vegetation to water-level regulation. Science 276:798-800.
39. Paine, R. T., M. J. Tegner, and E. A. Johnson. 1998. Compounded perturbations yield ecological surprises. Ecosystems 1:535-545.
40. Petts, G. E. 1989. Perspectives for ecological management of regulated rivers. Pages 3-26 in J. A. Gore and G. E. Petts, editors. Alternatives in regulated river management. CRC, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
41. Potter, K. W. 1991. Hydrological impacts of changing land management practices in a moderate-sized agricultural catchment. Water Resources Research 27:845-855.
42. Potter, K. W. 1994. Estimating potential flood reduction benefits of restored wetlands. Update: Water Resources, The University Council on Water Resources 97:34-36.
43. Power, M. E., A. Sun, G. Parker, W. E. Dietrich, and J. T. Wooten. 1995. Hydraulic food-chain models. BioScience 45:159-167.
44. Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., and A. Rinaldo. 1997. Fractal river basins: chance and self-organization. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
45. SAS Institute. 1989. SAS/STAT user's guide. Version 6. Fourth edition. Volume 1. SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina, USA.
46. Saupe, D. 1988. Algorithms for the random fractals. Pages 71-113 in H. O. Petigen and D. Saupe, editors. The science of fractal images. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.
47. Schindler, D. W., P. J. Curtis, B. R. Parker, and M. P. Stainton. 1996. Consequences of climate warming and lake acidification for UV-B penetration in North American boreal lakes, Nature 379:705-708.
48. Schneider, D. W., and T. M. Frost, 1996. Habitat duration and community structure in temporary ponds. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 15(1):64-68.
49. Skelly, D. K., E. E. Werner, and S. A. Cortwright. 1999. Long-term distributional dynamics of a Michigan amphibian assemblage. Ecology 80:2326-2337.
50. Snodgrass, J. W., J. W. Ackerman, A. L. Bryan, and J. Burger. 1999. Influence of hydroperiod, isolation, and heterospecifics on the distribution of aquatic salamanders (siren and amphiuma) among depression wetlands. Copeia 1:107-113.
51. Snodgrass, J. W., C. H. Jagoe, A. L. Bryan, H. A. Brant, and J. Burger. 2000a. Effects of trophic status and wetland morphology, hydroperiod, and water chemistry on mercury concentrations in fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57(1):171-180.
52. Snodgrass, J. W., M. J. Komorski, A. L. Bryan, and J. Burger. 2000b. Relationships among isolated wetland size, hydroperiod and amphibian species richness: implications for wetland regulations. Conservation Biology 14(2):414-419.
53. Spaling, H., and B. Smit. 1993. Cumulative environmental change: conceptual frameworks, evaluation approaches and institutional perspectives. Environmental Management 17(5):587-600.
54. Sparks, R. E. 1995. Need for ecosystem management of large rivers and their floodplains. BioScience 45(3):168-182.
55. Tchamen, G. W., and R. A. Kahawita. 1998. Modeling wetting and drying effects over complex topography. Hydrological Processes 12:1151-1182.
56. Tobin, G. A. 1995. The levee love affair: a stormy relationship. Water Resources Bulletin 31(3):359-367.
57. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). 1998. HEC-RAS fiver analysis system, user's manual. Version 2.2. U.S. Army Corps of engineers, Hydrologic Engineering Center. Davis, California, USA.
58. Vitousek, P. M., H. A. Mooney, J. Lubchenco, and J. M. Melillo. 1997. Human domination of earth's ecosystems. Science 277:494-499.
59. Ward, J. V., and J. A. Stanford. 1995. Ecological connectivity in alluvial river ecosystems and its disruption by flow regulation. Regulated River: Research and Management 11:105-119.
60. Wellborn, G. A., D. K. Skelly, and E. E. Werner. 1996. Mechanisms creating community structure across a freshwater habitat gradient. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 27:337-363.
61. Werner, E. E., and M. A. McPeek. 1994. Direct and indirect effects of predators on 2 anuran species along an environmental gradient. Ecology 75:1368-1382.
62. Williams, D. D. 1997. Temporary ponds and their invertebrate communities. Aquatic Conservation - Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 7(2):105-117.
63. Williams, G. P., and M. G. Wolman. 1984. Downstream effects of dams on alluvial rivers. Geological Survey Paper 1286. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., USA.
64. Wissinger, S. A., H. H. Whiteman, G. B. Sparks, G. L. Rouse, and W. S. Brown. 1999. Foraging trade-offs along a predator-permanence gradient in subalpine wetlands. Ecology 80:2102-2116.
65. With, K. A., and A. W. King. 1997. The use and misuse of neutral landscape models in ecology. Oikos 79:219-229.
66. Yan, N. D., W. Keller, N. M. Scully, D. R. S. Lean, and P. J. Dillon. 1996. Increased UV-B penetration in a lake owing to drought-induced acidification. Nature 381:141-143.
67. Zar, J. H. 1999. Biostatistical analysis. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA.