The influence of methodological procedures on hydrological classification performance

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3393-3409

  Penas F J ^a   Barquin J ^a   Snelder, T H ^b   Booker, D J ^c   Alvarez C ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b AQUALINC RESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE;

CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER FLOW; RIVER SYSTEM;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84906993120     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-3393-2014     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Alcázar, J. and Palau, A.: Establishing environmental flow regimes in a Mediterranean watershed based on a regional classification, J. Hydrol., 388, 41-51, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.04.026, 2010.
2. Álvarez-Cabria, M., Barquín, J., and Juanes, J. A.: Spatial and seasonal variability of macroinvertebrate metrics. Do macroinvertebrate assemblages track river health?, Ecol. Indic., 10, 370-379, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.06.018, 2010.
3. Bejarano, M. D., Marchamalo, M., García de Jalón, D., and González del Tánago, M.: Flow regime patterns and their controlling factors in the Ebro basin (Spain), J. Hydrol., 385, 323-335, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.03.001, 2010.
4. Belmar, O., Velasco, J., and Martínez-Capel, F.: Hydrological Classification of Natural Flow Regimes to Support Environmental Flow Assessments in Intensively Regulated Mediterranean Rivers, Segura River Basin (Spain), Environ. Manage., 47, 992-1004, doi: 10.1007/s00267-011-9661-0, 2011.
5. Benda, L., Poff, N. L., Miller, D., Dunne, T., Reeves, G., Pess, G., and Pollock, M.: The Network Dynamics Hypothesis: How Channel Networks Structure Riverine Habitats, Bioscience, 54, 413-427, doi: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0413: TNDHHC]2.0.CO;2, 2004.
6. Benda, L., Miller, D., Andras, K., Bigelow, P., Reeves, G., and Michael, D.: NetMap: A New Tool in Support of Watershed Science and Resource Management, For. Sci., 53, 206-219, 2007.
7. Breiman, L.: Random Forest, Mach. Learn., 45, 5-32, doi: 10.1023/A: 1010933404324, 2001.
8. Breiman, L., Friedman, J. H., Olshen, R. A., and Stone, C. J.: Classification and regression trees, Wadsworth, Inc., Monterey, Calif., USA, 1984.
9. Bunn, S. E. and Arthington, A. H.: Basic principles and ecological consequences of altered flow regimes for aquatic biodiversity, Environ. Manage., 30, 492-507, doi: 10.1007/s00267-002-2737-0, 2002.
10. Chinnayakanahalli, K. J., Hawkins, C. P., Tarboton, D. G., and Hill, R. A.: Natural flow regime, temperature and the composition and richness of invertebrate assemblages in streams of the western United States, Freshwater Biol., 56, 1248-1265, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02560.x, 2011.
11. Colwell, R. K.: Predictability, Constancy, and Contingency of Periodic Phenomena, Ecology, 55, 1148-1153, 1974.
12. Ferrier, S. and Guisan, A.: Spatial modelling of biodiversity at the community level, J. Appl. Ecol., 43, 393-404, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2006.01149.x, 2006.
13. Gámiz-Fortis, S. R., Hidalgo-Muñoz, J. M., Argüeso, D., Esteban-Parra, M. J., and Castro-Díez, Y.: Spatio-temporal variability in Ebro river basin (NE Spain): Global SST as potential source of predictability on decadal time scales, J. Hydrol., 409, 759-775, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.09.014, 2011.
14. Gurnell, A. M., Hupp, C. R., and Gregory, S. V.: Linking hydrology and ecology, Hydrol. Process., 14, 2813-2815, doi: 10.1002/1099-1085(200011/12)14: 16/17<2813: : AIDHYP120> 3.0.CO;2-Q, 2000.
15. Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., and Friedman, J. H.: The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001.
16. Hubert, L. and Arabie, P.: Comparing Partitions, J. Classif., 2, 193-218, 1985.
17. Jackson, D. A.: Stopping Rules in Principal Components-Analysis - a Comparison of Heuristic and Statistical Approaches, Ecology, 74, 2204-2214, doi: 10.2307/1939574, 1993.
18. Kauffman, L, and Rousseeuw, P. J.: Finding groups in data. An introduction to cluster analysis, Wiley and Sons, New-York, 1990.
19. Kennard, M. J., Pusey, B. J., Olden, J. D., MacKay, S. J., Stein, J. L., and Marsh, N.: Classification of natural flow regimes in Australia to support environmental flow management, Freshwater Biol., 55, 171-193, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02307.x, 2010.
20. McManamay, R. A., Orth, D. J., Dolloff, C. A., and Frimpong, E. A.: A regional classification of unregulated stream flows: Spatial resolution and hierarchical frameworks, River Res. Appl., 28, 1019-1033, doi: 10.1002/rra.1493, 2012.
21. Monk, A.W., Wood, P. J., and Hannah, D. M.: Examining the influence of flow regime variability on instream ecology, in: Hydroecology and Ecohydrology: past, present and future, edited by: Wood, P. J., Hannah, D. M., and Sadler, J. P., John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, 2007.
22. Morán-Tejeda, E., López-Moreno, J. I., Ceballos-Barbancho, A., and Vicente-Serrano, S. M.: River regimes and recent hydrological changes in the Duero basin (Spain), J. Hydrol., 404, 241-258, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.04.034, 2011.
23. Naiman, R. J. and Dudgeon, D.: Global alteration of freshwaters: influences on human and environmental well-being, Ecol. Res., 26, 865-873, doi: 10.1007/s11284-010-0693-3, 2011.
24. Olden, J. D. and Poff, N. L.: Redundancy and the choice of hydrologic indices for characterizing streamflow regimes, River Res. Appl., 19, 101-121, doi: 10.1002/rra.700, 2003.
25. Olden, J. D., Kennard, M. J., and Pusey, B. J.: A framework for hydrologic classification with a review of methodologies and applications in ecohydrology, Ecohydrology, 5, 503-518, doi: 10.1002/eco.251, 2012.
26. Peñas, F. J., Barquín, J., Snelder, T., Booker, D., Fernandez, D., and Álvarez-Cabria, M.: Do rivers reaches differ in habitat-flow relationships according to hydrologic classification and river size?, 9th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics Proceedings, 17-21 September 2012, Vienna, Austria, 2012.
27. Poff, N. L.: A hydrogeography of unregulated streams in the United States and an examination of scale-dependence in some hydrological descriptors, Freshwater Biol., 36, 71-91, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1996.00073.x, 1996.
28. Poff, N. L. and Zimmerman, J. K. H.: Ecological responses to altered flow regimes: a literature review to inform the science and management of environmental flows, Freshwater Biol., 55, 194-205, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02272.x, 2010.
29. Poff, N. L., Olden, J. D., Pepin, D. M., and Bledsoe, B. P.: Placing global stream flow variability in geographic and geomorphic contexts, River Res. Appl., 22, 149-166, doi: 10.1002/rra.902, 2006.
30. Reidy Liermann, C. A., Olden, J. D., Beechie, T. J., Kennard, M. J., Skidmore, P. B., Konrad, C. P., and Imaki, H.: Hydrogeomorphic classification of Washington state rivers to support emerging environmental flow management strategies, River Res. Appl., 28, 1340-1358, doi: 10.1002/rra.1541, 2012.
31. Richter, B. D., Baumgartner, J. V., Powell, J., and Braun, D. P.: A method for assessing hydrologic alteration within ecosystems, Conserv. Biol., 10, 1163-1174, doi: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10041163.x, 1996.
32. Richter, B. D., Baumgartner, J. V., Braun, P. D., and Powell, J.: A spatial assessment of hydrologic alteration within a river network, Regul. Rivers, 14, 329-340, doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1646(199807/08)14: 4<329: : AID-RRR505>3.0.CO;2-E, 1998.
33. Rivas-Martínez, S., Penas, A., and Díaz, T. E.: Bioclimatic Map of Europe, Bioclimates, Cartographic Service. University of León, León, Spain, 2004.
34. Snelder, T. H. and Booker, D.: Natural flow regime classifications are sensitive to definition procedures, River Res. Appl., 7, 822-838, doi: 10.1029/2009WR008839, 2013.
35. Snelder, T. H., Pella, H., Wasson, J. G., and Lamouroux, N.: Definition Procedures Have Little Effect on Performance of Environmental Classifications of Streams and Rivers, Environ. Manage., 42, 771-788, doi: 10.1007/s00267-008-9188-1, 2008.
36. Snelder, T. H., Lamouroux, N., Leathwick, J. R., Pella, H., Sauquet, E., and Shankar, U.: Predictive mapping of the natural flow regimes of France, J. Hydrol., 373, 57-67, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.04.011, 2009.
37. Snelder, T. H., Lamouroux, N., and Pella, H.: Empirical modelling of large scale patterns in river bed surface grain size, Geomorphology, 127, 189-197, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.12.015, 2011.
38. Snelder, T. H., Barquin Ortiz, J., Booker, D. J., Lamouroux, N., Pella, H., and Shankar, U.: Can bottom-up procedures improve the performance of stream classifications?, Aquat. Sci., 74, 45-59, doi: 10.1007/s00027-011-0194-7, 2012.
39. Solans, M. A. and Poff, N. L.: Classification of Natural Flow Regimes in the Ebro Basin (Spain) by using a Wide Range of Hydrologic Parameters, River Res. Appl., 29, 1147-1163, doi: 10.1002/rra.2598, 2013.
40. Vannote, R. L., Minshall, G. W., Cummins, K. W., Sedell, J. R., and Cushing, C. E.: The river continuum concept, Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 37, 130-137, 1980.
41. Van Sickle, J.: Using mean similarity dendogram to evaluate classifications, J. Agr. Biol. Envir. St., 2, 370-388, 1997.
42. Zhang, Y., Arthington, A. H., Bunn, S. E., Mackay, S., Xia, J., and Kennard, M.: Classification of flow regimes for environmental flow assessment in regulated rivers: The Huai River Basin, China, River Res. Appl., 28, 989-1005, doi: 10.1002/rra.1483, 2012.