Homogenization of spatial patterns of hydrologic response in artificially drained agricultural catchments

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 5010-5020

  Boland Brien, Samuel J ^a,d   Basu, Nandita B ^a,c   Schilling, Keith E ^b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b Iowa Geological and Water Survey   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d California State Water Resources Control Board   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Baseflow; Human impact; Streamflow distribution; Tile drain

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENTS; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; ANTHROPOGENIC MODIFICATION; BASEFLOWS; HUMAN IMPACT; STREAMFLOW DISTRIBUTION; TILE DRAINS;

CATCHMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASEFLOW; DRAINAGE; HOMOGENEITY; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PEAK DISCHARGE; STREAMFLOW; TILE DRAIN;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906310205     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9967     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Armstrong AC. 1983. The hydrology and water quality of a drained clay catchment - Cockle Park, Northumberland. MAFF: Land and Water Service: London.
2. Arnold JG, Allen PM, Muttiah R, Bernhardt G. 1995. Automated base-flow separation and recession analysis techniques. Ground Water 33(6): 1010-1018.
3. Baker JL, Melvin SW, Lemke DW, Lawlor PA, Crumpton WG, Helmers MJ. 2004. Subsurface drainage in Iowa and the water quality benefits and problems. Cooke R. (ed). Drainage VIII Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium. ASAE, Sacramento, California USA, pp. 39-50.
4. Basu NB, Rao PSC, Winzeler HE, Kumar S, Owens P, Merwade V. 2010. Parsimonious modeling of hydrologic responses in engineered watersheds: structural heterogeneity versus functional homogeneity. Water Resources Research 46(4): W04501.
5. Bishop RA, Joens J, Zohrer J. 1998. Iowa's wetlands, present and future with a focus on prairie potholes. Journal of Iowa Academy of Sciences 105(3): 89-93.
6. Biswal B, Marani M. 2010. Geomorphological origin of recession curves. Geophysical Research Letters 37(24): L24403.
7. Botter G. 2010. Stochastic recession rates and the probabilistic structure of stream flows. Water Resources Research 46(12).
8. Carlisle DM, Wolock DM, Meador MR. 2010. Alteration of streamflow magnitudes and potential ecological consequences: a multiregional assessment. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. In Press. DOI: 10.1890/100053
9. Chapman T. 1999. A comparison of algorithms for stream flow recession and baseflow separation. Hydrological Processes 13(5): 701-714.
10. Diaz RJ, Rosenberg R. 2008. Spreading dead zones and consequences for marine ecosystems. Science 321: 926-929.
11. van Dijk AIJM. 2010. Climate and terrain factors explaining streamflow response and recession in Australian catchments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 14: 159-169.
12. Ellis EC. 2011. Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369(1938): 1010-1035.
13. Fuortes L, Clark MK, Kirchner HL, Smith EM. 1997. Association between female infertility and agricultural work history. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 31(4): 445-451.
14. Halford KJ, Mayer GC. 2000. Problems associated with estimating ground water discharge and recharge from stream-discharge records. Ground Water 38(3): 331-342.
15. Harman CJ, Sivapalan M, Kumar P. 2009. Power law catchment-scale recessions arising from heterogeneous linear small-scale dynamics. Water Resources Research 45: W09404.
16. IDNR. 2008. Soils requiring tile drainage for full productivity. Iowa Geological and Water Survey, Iowa DNR: Iowa City, Iowa.
17. Jayawickreme DH, Hyndman DW. 2007. Evaluating the influence of land cover on seasonal water budgets using next generation radar (NEXRAD) rainfall and streamflow data. Water Resources Research 43(2): W02408.
18. Kemp WM, Testa JM, Conley DJ, Gilbert D, Hagy JD. 2009. Temporal response of coastal hypoxia to nutrient loading and physical controls. Biogeosciences 6: 2985-3008.
19. Kladivko EJ, Vanscoyoc GE, Monke EJ, Oates KM, Pask W. 1991. Pesticide and nutrient movement into subsurface tile drains on a silt loam soil in Indiana. Journal of Environmental Quality 20(1): 264-270.
20. Knox JC. 2001. Agricultural influence on landscape sensitivity in the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Catena 42(2-4): 193-224.
21. Kollasch RP. 2004. Land Cover of the State of Iowa in the Year 2002. Iowa Geological and Water Survey: Iowa City, IA.
22. Konrad CP, Booth DB. 2002. Hydrologic Trends Associated with Urban Development for Selected Streams in the Puget Sound Basin, Western Washington, USGS: Tacoma, Washington.
23. Matson PA. 1997. Agricultural intensification and ecosystem properties. Science 277(5325): 504-509.
24. McLean JJJ, Schwab GO. 1982. Flood peak flows and subsurface drainage, 1982 Summer Meeting, ASAE. Madison, WI.
25. Mutel CF. 2010. A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods. Iowa University Press: Iowa City.
26. Nathan RJ, McMahon TA. 1990. Evaluation of automated techniques for base-flow and recession analyses. Water Resources Research 26(7): 1465-1473.
27. Pavelis G. 1987. Farm Drainage in the United States: History, Status, and Prospects. Economic Research Service (DOA): Washington, D.C.
28. Posavec K, Bacani A, Nakic Z. 2006. A visual basic spreadsheet macro for recession curve analysis. Ground Water 44(5): 764-767.
29. Potts R, Gustafson E, Stewart SI, Thompson FR, Bergen K, Brown DG, Hammer R, Radeloff V, Bengston D, Sauer J, Sturtevant B. 2004. The changing Midwest assessment: land cover, natural resources, and people, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, St. Paul, MN.
30. Prestegaard KL, Matherne AM, Shane B, Houghton K, O'Connell M, Katyl N. 1994. Spatial variations in the magnitude of the 1993 floods, Raccoon River basin, Iowa. Geomorphology 10(1-4): 169-182.
31. Prior JC, Kohrt CJ. 2006. The Landform Regions of Iowa. Iowa Geological Survey. Iowa City, Iowa.
32. Rabalais NN, Wiseman WJ, Turner RE, SenGupta BK, Dortch Q. 1996. Nutrient changes in the Mississippi River and system responses on the adjacent continental shelf. Estuaries 19(2B): 386-407.
33. Ramankutty N, Foley JA. 1999. Estimating historical changes in global land cover: croplands from 1700 to 1992. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 13(4): 997-1027.
34. Richards JF. 1990. Land Transformation, the Earth as Transformed by Human Action. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA; 561-575.
35. Robinson M. 1989. Small catchment studies of man's impact on flood flows: agricultural drainage and plantation forestry. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication 187: 299-308.
36. Robinson M. 1990. Impact of improved land drainage on river flows. Institute of Hydrology Report No. 113, Center for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, U.K.
37. Robinson M, Beven KJ. 1983. The effect of mole drainage on the hydrologic response of a swelling clay soil. Journal of Hydrology 63: 205-223.
38. Robinson M, Rycroft DW. 1999. The impact of drainage on streamflow. In Agricultural Drainage. Agronomy Monograph 38, Skaggs RW, van Schifgaarde J. Madison, WI; 38: 767-800.
39. Robinson M, Ryder EL, Ward RC. 1985. Influence on streamflow of field drainage in a small agricultural catchment. Agricultural Water Management 10(2): 145-158.
40. Rozemeijer JC, van der Velde Y, van Geer FC, Bierkens MFP, Broers HP. 2010. Direct measurements of the tile drain and groundwater flow route contributions to surface water contamination: from field-scale concentration patterns in groundwater to catchment-scale surface water quality. Environmental Pollution 158(12): 3571-3579.
41. Schilling KE, Helmers M. 2008. Effects of subsurface drainage tiles on streamflow in Iowa agricultural watersheds: exploratory hydrograph analysis. Hydrological Processes 22(23): 4497-4506.
42. Schilling KE, Jha MK, Zhang YK, Gassman PW, Wolter CF. 2008. Impact of land use and land cover change on the water balance of a large agricultural watershed: historical effects and future directions. Water Resources Research 44 W00A09.
43. Schuch M. 1978. Regulation of water regime of heavy soils by drainage, subsoiling and liming and water movement in this soil. Wesseling, J. (ed), International Drainage Workshop. IILRI, Wageningen.
44. Seuna P, Kauppi L. 1981. Influence of subsurface drainage on water quantity and quality in a cultivated area in Finland, Water Resources Institute Publication No. 43, Helsinki, Finland.
45. Skaggs RW, Breve MA, Gilliam JW. 1994. Hydrologic and water-quality impacts of agricultural drainage. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 24(1): 1-32.
46. Smakhtin VU. 2001. Low flow hydrology: a review. Journal of Hydrology 240(3-4): 147-186.
47. Smith VH, Tilman GD, Nekola JC. 1999. Eutrophication: impacts of excess nutrient inputs on freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. Environmental Pollution 100(1-3): 179-196.
48. Steffen W, Crutzen PJ, McNeill JR. 2007. The Anthropocene: are humans now overwhelming the great forces of nature. Ambio 36(8): 614-621.
49. Stone M, Krishnappan BG. 1997. Transport characteristics of tile-drain sediments from an agricultural watershed. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 99(1-4): 89-103.
50. Tallaksen LM. 1995. A review of baseflow recession analysis. Journal of Hydrology 165(1-4): 349-370.
51. Tilman D. 1999. Global environmental impacts of agricultural expansion: the need for sustainable and efficient practices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96(11): 5995-6000.
52. Tilman D. 2001. Forecasting agriculturally driven global environmental change. Science 292(5515): 281-284.
53. Toebes C, Strang DD. 1964. On recession curves. 1. Recession equations. Journal of Hydrology NZ 3(2): 2-15.
54. USGS. 1999. National elevation dataset of Iowa as a 30 meter floating point GRID, vertically attributed in feet. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Iowa DNR, Sioux Falls: South Dakota.
55. van der Velde Y, de Rooij GH, Rozemeijer JC, van Geer FC, Broers HP. 2010. Nitrate response of a lowland catchment: on the relation between stream concentration and travel time distribution dynamics. Water Resources Research 46: W11534.
56. Wang D, Cai X. 2010. Comparative study of climate and human impacts on seasonal baseflow in urban and agricultural watersheds. Geophysical Research Letters 37(6) L06406.
57. Winchester PD, Huskins J, Ying J. 2009. Agrichemicals in surface water and birth defects in the United States. Acta Paediatrica 98(4): 664-669.
58. Wittenberg H. 1999. Baseflow recession and recharge as nonlinear storage processes. Hydrological Processes 13(5): 715-726.
59. Wittenberg H, Sivapalan M. 1999. Watershed groundwater balance estimation using streamflow recession analysis and baseflow separation. Journal of Hydrology 219(1-2): 20-33.
60. Yang G, Bowling LC, Cherkauer KA, Pijanowski BC, Niyogi D. 2010. Hydroclimatic response of watersheds to urban intensity: an observational and modeling-based analysis for the White River basin, Indiana. Journal of Hydrometeorology 11(1): 122-138.
61. Zecharias YB, Brutsaert W. 1988. Recession characteristics of groundwater outflow and base-flow from mountainous watersheds. Water Resources Research 24(10): 1651-1658.