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Title: Patterns and drivers for wetland connections in the Prairie Pothole Region, United States

Abstract

Ecosystem function in rivers, lakes and coastal waters depends on the functioning of upstream aquatic ecosystems, necessitating an improved understanding of watershed-scale interactions including variable surface-water flows between wetlands and streams. As surface water in the Prairie Pothole Region expands in wet years, surface-water connections occur between many depressional wetlands and streams. Minimal research has explored the spatial patterns and drivers for the abundance of these connections, despite their potential to inform resource management and regulatory programs including the U.S. Clean Water Act. In this study, wetlands were identified that did not intersect the stream network, but were shown with Landsat images (1990–2011) to become merged with the stream network as surface water expanded. Wetlands were found to spill into or consolidate with other wetlands within both small (2–10 wetlands) and large (>100 wetlands) wetland clusters, eventually intersecting a stream channel, most often via a riparian wetland. These surface-water connections occurred over a wide range of wetland distances from streams (averaging 90–1400 m in different ecoregions). Differences in the spatial abundance of wetlands that show a variable surface-water connection to a stream were best explained by smaller wetland-to-wetland distances, greater wetland abundance, and maximum surface-water extent. This analysis demonstrated thatmore » wetland arrangement and surface water expansion are important mechanisms for depressional wetlands to connect to streams and provides a first step to understanding the frequency and abundance of these surface-water connections across the Prairie Pothole Region.« less

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Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); US Geological Survey, Lakewood, CO (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC); US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
OSTI Identifier:
1333019
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OSTI ID: 1623624
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0014664
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Wetlands Ecology and Management
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Wetlands Ecology and Management Journal Volume: 25 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0923-4861
Publisher:
Springer Science + Business Media
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; water resources; wetlands; prairie pothole region; connectivity; network; Landsat; wetland regulation

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Vanderhoof, Melanie K., Christensen, Jay R., and Alexander, Laurie C. Patterns and drivers for wetland connections in the Prairie Pothole Region, United States. Germany: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1007/s11273-016-9516-9.
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Vanderhoof, Melanie K., Christensen, Jay R., & Alexander, Laurie C. Patterns and drivers for wetland connections in the Prairie Pothole Region, United States. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-016-9516-9
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Vanderhoof, Melanie K., Christensen, Jay R., and Alexander, Laurie C. Sat . "Patterns and drivers for wetland connections in the Prairie Pothole Region, United States". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-016-9516-9.
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@article{osti_1333019,
title = {Patterns and drivers for wetland connections in the Prairie Pothole Region, United States},
author = {Vanderhoof, Melanie K. and Christensen, Jay R. and Alexander, Laurie C.},
abstractNote = {Ecosystem function in rivers, lakes and coastal waters depends on the functioning of upstream aquatic ecosystems, necessitating an improved understanding of watershed-scale interactions including variable surface-water flows between wetlands and streams. As surface water in the Prairie Pothole Region expands in wet years, surface-water connections occur between many depressional wetlands and streams. Minimal research has explored the spatial patterns and drivers for the abundance of these connections, despite their potential to inform resource management and regulatory programs including the U.S. Clean Water Act. In this study, wetlands were identified that did not intersect the stream network, but were shown with Landsat images (1990–2011) to become merged with the stream network as surface water expanded. Wetlands were found to spill into or consolidate with other wetlands within both small (2–10 wetlands) and large (>100 wetlands) wetland clusters, eventually intersecting a stream channel, most often via a riparian wetland. These surface-water connections occurred over a wide range of wetland distances from streams (averaging 90–1400 m in different ecoregions). Differences in the spatial abundance of wetlands that show a variable surface-water connection to a stream were best explained by smaller wetland-to-wetland distances, greater wetland abundance, and maximum surface-water extent. This analysis demonstrated that wetland arrangement and surface water expansion are important mechanisms for depressional wetlands to connect to streams and provides a first step to understanding the frequency and abundance of these surface-water connections across the Prairie Pothole Region.},
doi = {10.1007/s11273-016-9516-9},
journal = {Wetlands Ecology and Management},
number = 3,
volume = 25,
place = {Germany},
year = {Sat Nov 19 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Sat Nov 19 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: The distribution of the units of analysis including ecoregions (n = 6) and HUC10 s (n = 155) within the two Landsat path/row extents (p31r27, northern path/row, p29r29, southern path/row)
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