Regional frameworks applied to hydrology: Can landscape-based frameworks capture the hydrologic variability?

River Research and Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1325-1339

  McManamay, R A ^a   Orth, D J ^a   Dolloff, C A ^a   Frimpong, E A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental flow standards; Flow classification; Hydrologic landscape regions

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELD; FLOW STRUCTURE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGY; STREAMFLOW; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856784393     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1535     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Arora V, Seglenieks F, Kouwen N, Soulis E. 2001. Scaling aspects of river flow routing. Hydrological Processes 15: 461-477. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.161.
2. 3 template. Hydrological Processes 20: 3415-3422. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6519.
3. Butts MB, Payne JT, Kristensen M, Madsen H. 2004. An evaluation of the impact of model structure on hydrological modelling uncertainty in streamflow simulation. Journal of Hydrology 298: 242-266. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.03.042.
4. Carlisle DM, Falcone J, Wolock DM, Meador MR, Norris RH. 2010. Predicting the natural flow regime: models for assessing hydrologic alteration in streams. River Research and Applications 26: 118-136. DOI: 10.1002/rra.1247.
5. Easton ZM, Marchant P-G, Walter MT, Petrovic AM, Steehuis TS. 2007. Hydrologic assessment of an urban variable source watershed in the northeast United States. Water Resources Research 43: W03413. DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005076.
6. Falcone JA, Carlisle DM, Wolock DM, Meador MR. 2010. GAGES: a stream gauge database for evaluating natural and altered flow conditions in the conterminous United States. Ecology 91: 621. Ecological Archives E091-045-D1.
7. Fenneman NM, Johnson DW. 1946. Physiographic divisions of the conterminous US: U.S. Geological Survey special map series, scale 1:7, 000, 000. http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/physio.xml. [accessed on 23 June 2010].
8. Frimpong EA, Angermeier PL. 2010. Comparative utility of selected frameworks for regionalizing fish-based bioassessments across the United States. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139: 1872-1895. DOI: 10.1577/T09-142.1.
9. Gong L, Nilsson E-W, Halldin S, Xu CY. 2009. Large-scale runoff routing with an aggregated network-response function. Journal of Hydrology 368: 237-250. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.02.007.
10. Hewlitt JD, Hibbert AR. 1963. Moisture and energy conditions within a sloping soil mass during drainage. Journal of Geophysical Research 68: 1081-1087. DOI: 10.1029/JZ068i004p01081.
11. Hoos AB, McMahon G. 2009. Spatial analysis of instream nitrogen loads and factors controlling nitrogen delivery to streams in the Southeastern United States using spatially referenced regression on watershed attributes (SPARROW) and regional classification frameworks. Hydrological Processes 23: 2275-2294. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7323.
12. Johnson PA, Fecko BJ. 2008. Regional channel geometry equations: a statistical comparison for physiographic provinces in the Eastern US. River Research and Applications 24: 823-834. DOI: 10.1002/rra.1080.
13. Kennard MJ, Pusey BJ, Olden JD, Mackay SJ, Stein JL, Marsh N. 2010. Classification of natural flow regimes in Australia to support environmental flow management. Freshwater Biology 55: 171-193. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02307.x.
14. Kennen JG, Henriksen JA, Heasley J, Cade BS, Terrell JW. 2009. Application of the Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process for Missouri streams. US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-1138.
15. Kennen JG, Henriksen JA, Nieswand SP. 2007. Development of the Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process for determining environmental flows for New Jersey streams. US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5206.
16. Matonse AH, Kroll C. 2009. Simulating low streamflows with hillslope storage models. Water Resources Research 45: W01407. DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006529.
17. McMahon GS, Gregonis M, Waltman SW, Omerik JM, Thorson ED, Freeouf JA, Rorick AH, Keys SE. 2001. Developing a spatial framework of common ecological regions for the conterminous United States. Environmental Management 28: 293-316. DOI: 10.1007/s0026702429.
18. McManamay RA, Orth DJ, Dolloff CA, Frimpong EA. 2011. A regional classification of unregulated stream flows: spatial resolution and hierarchical frameworks. River Research and Applications. DOI: 10.1002/rra.1493.
19. Mohamoud YM. 2008. Prediction of daily flow duration curves and streamflow for ungauged catchments using regional flow duration curves. Hydrological Sciences 53: 706-724. DOI: 10.1623/hysj.53.4.706.
20. Morris AJ, Donovan JJ, Strager M. 2009. Geospatial analysis of climatic and geomorphic interactions influencing stream discharge, Appalachian Mountains, USA. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 14: 73-84. DOI: 10.1007/s10666-008-9145-7.
21. Poff NL. 1996. A hydrogeography of unregulated streams in the United States and an examination of scale-dependence in some hydrological descriptors. Freshwater Biology 36: 71-91. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1996.00073.x.
22. Poff NL, Allan JD, Bain MB, Karr JR, Prestegaard KL, Richter BD, Sparks RE, Stromberg JC. 1997. The natural flow regime: a paradigm for river conservation and restoration. Bioscience 47: 769-784. DOI: 10.2307/1313099.
23. Poff NL, Bledsoe BP, Cuhaciyan CO. 2006a. Hydrologic variation with land use across the contiguous United States: geomorphic and ecological consequences for stream ecosystems. Geomorphology 79: 264-285. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.06.032.
24. Poff NL, Olden JD, Pepin DM, Bledsoe BP. 2006b. Placing global stream flow variability in geographic and geomorphic contexts. River Research and Applications 22: 149-166. DOI: 10.1002/rra.902.
25. Poff NL, Ward JV. 1989. Implications of streamflow variability and predictability for lotic community structure-a regional analysis of streamflow patterns. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 46: 1805-1818. DOI: 10.1139/f89-228.
26. Poor CJ, McDonnell JJ, Bolte J. 2008. Testing the Hydrologic Landscape Classification System and other terrain analysis measures for predicting low-flow nitrate and chloride in watersheds. Environmental Management 42: 877-893. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9168-5.
27. Santhi C, Allen PM, Muttiah RS, Arnold JG, Tuppad P. 2008. Regional estimation of baseflow for the conterminous United States by hydrologic landscape regions. Journal of Hydrology 351: 139-153. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.12.018.
28. SAS. 2008. JMP Statistics and Graphics Guide, Release 8. SAS Institute Inc: Cary, NC.
29. Shaw D, Martz LW, Pietroniro A. 2005. Flow routing in large-scale models using vector addition. Journal of Hydrology 307: 38-47. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.09.019.
30. Snelder TH, Cattanẽo F, Suren AM, Biggs BJF. 2004. Is the river environment Classification an improved landscape-scale classification of rivers? Journal of the North American Benthological Society 23(3): 580-598. DOI: 10.1899/0887-3593(2004)023<0580:ITRECA>2.0.CO;2.
31. Sowa SP, Annis G, Morey ME, Diamond DD. 2007. A gap analysis and comprehensive conservation strategy for riverine ecosystems of Missouri. Ecological Monographs 77: 301-334. DOI: 10.1890/06-1253.1.
32. Sun G, McNulty SG, Myers JA-M, Cohen EC. 2008. Impacts of multiple stresses on water demand and supply across the Southeastern United States. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44: 1441-1457. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2008.00250.x.
33. Therneau TM, Atkinson B, Ripley B. 2010. Package 'rpart'. The Comprehensive R Archive Network. http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rpart/rpart.pdf [accessed on 3 January 2010].
34. Turton D, Fisher B, Seilheimer TS, Esralew R. 2008. An assessment of environmental flows for Oklahoma. US Geological Survey Report 2008OK107B.
35. Vörösmarty CJ, McIntyer PB, Gessner MO, Dudgeon D, Prusevich A, Green P, Glidden S, Bunn SE, Sullivan CA, Liermann C-R, Davies DM. 2010. Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity. Nature 467: 555-561. DOI: 10.1038/nature09440.
36. Wardrop DH, Bishop JA, Fasterling M, Hychka K, Myers W, Patil GP, Taillie C. 2005. Use of landscape and landuse parameters for classification and characterization of watersheds in the mid-Atlantic across five physiographic provinces. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 12: 209-223. DOI: 10.1007/s10651-005-1042-5.
37. Wollock DM, Winter TC, McMahon G. 2004. Delineation and evaluation of hydrologic-landscape regions in the United States using geographic information system tools and multivariate statistical analyses. Environmental Management 34: 71-88. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-5077-9.