Vegetation and location of water inflow affect evaporation in a subtropical wetland as indicated by the deuterium excess method: Evaporation Effects Indicated by Deuterium Excess Method
Abstract
Evaporation represents a principal form of water loss from water bodies, but quantifying evaporation with transpiring vegetation is challenging, owing to the difficulties in disentangling evaporation from transpiration. As the two processes have different effects on water isotope signatures (i.e., oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope ratios expressed by δ18O and δ2H), we used both the δ18O and δ2H values of water samples to calculate their deuterium excess (d) values, which are proportionate to fraction of evaporation loss (Ef) of water being sampled. Comparing with a single isotope method, the d method holds the advantage that it does not require knowledge of the initial isotope ratios of source water. Limitations of the d method, for example, effects of prior-evaporation of water before entering water bodies, can be checked and corrected. The sampling locations throughout our study site differed in vegetation coverage, water depth, and distance to water inflow (or discharge gate of water inflow), which are three important factors in water management. This sampling design offered us a unique opportunity to quantify the influences of the above three factors on Ef. We found the following: (1) There was a spatiotemporal pattern in δ18O distribution. (2) The Ef was negatively related tomore »
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (United States). Dept. of Biology
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
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- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1503201
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-19-21229
Journal ID: ISSN 1936-0584
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Ecohydrology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1936-0584
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Earth Sciences; Evaporation, Deuterium excess method; Stable isotopes; Vegetation; Isoscape
Citation Formats
Zhai, Lu, Wang, Xin, Wang, Peng, Miralles-Wilhelm, Fernando, and Sternberg, Leonel da Silveira Lobo. Vegetation and location of water inflow affect evaporation in a subtropical wetland as indicated by the deuterium excess method: Evaporation Effects Indicated by Deuterium Excess Method. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1002/eco.2082.
Zhai, Lu, Wang, Xin, Wang, Peng, Miralles-Wilhelm, Fernando, & Sternberg, Leonel da Silveira Lobo. Vegetation and location of water inflow affect evaporation in a subtropical wetland as indicated by the deuterium excess method: Evaporation Effects Indicated by Deuterium Excess Method. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2082
Zhai, Lu, Wang, Xin, Wang, Peng, Miralles-Wilhelm, Fernando, and Sternberg, Leonel da Silveira Lobo. Mon .
"Vegetation and location of water inflow affect evaporation in a subtropical wetland as indicated by the deuterium excess method: Evaporation Effects Indicated by Deuterium Excess Method". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2082. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1503201.
@article{osti_1503201,
title = {Vegetation and location of water inflow affect evaporation in a subtropical wetland as indicated by the deuterium excess method: Evaporation Effects Indicated by Deuterium Excess Method},
author = {Zhai, Lu and Wang, Xin and Wang, Peng and Miralles-Wilhelm, Fernando and Sternberg, Leonel da Silveira Lobo},
abstractNote = {Evaporation represents a principal form of water loss from water bodies, but quantifying evaporation with transpiring vegetation is challenging, owing to the difficulties in disentangling evaporation from transpiration. As the two processes have different effects on water isotope signatures (i.e., oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope ratios expressed by δ18O and δ2H), we used both the δ18O and δ2H values of water samples to calculate their deuterium excess (d) values, which are proportionate to fraction of evaporation loss (Ef) of water being sampled. Comparing with a single isotope method, the d method holds the advantage that it does not require knowledge of the initial isotope ratios of source water. Limitations of the d method, for example, effects of prior-evaporation of water before entering water bodies, can be checked and corrected. The sampling locations throughout our study site differed in vegetation coverage, water depth, and distance to water inflow (or discharge gate of water inflow), which are three important factors in water management. This sampling design offered us a unique opportunity to quantify the influences of the above three factors on Ef. We found the following: (1) There was a spatiotemporal pattern in δ18O distribution. (2) The Ef was negatively related to the vegetation coverage, positively related to distance to the water source inflow but nonsignificantly related to water depth. Therefore, vegetation and distance to the water inflow are two important considerations for the control of evaporative water loss, and evaporation calculated by the d method can lead to more informed water management.},
doi = {10.1002/eco.2082},
journal = {Ecohydrology},
number = 4,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Mon Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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