Watershed Aquatic Assessment and Management of Water

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 1707

Special Issue Editors

School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Interests: hydrological processes; hydroecological effect; environmental flow regulation; aquatic food webs
School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Interests: ecohydrology; evapotranspiration; water-carbon-energy coupled cycle; enviromental flow assessment
School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Interests: eco-friendly reservior regulation; watershed management; lake restoration
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Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable management of aquatic ecosystems is a worldwide priority, and provides strong support for the protection of water environment and the restoration of aquatic system. It includes advanced assessment methodologies, water simulation modelling, and the systematic water management system and policy, which face the future challenges deriving from a sustainable management of watershed aquatic system. At this regard, this special Issue seeks research papers proposing new efficient methodologies and management solutions aimed to aquatic health: ecological funtion/processes/assessment/modelling/management system for watershed aquatic system.

Ecological health assessment (indictors), ecological processes modelling,  ecosystem services and function analysis, rivers-lakes connectivity in structures and function; monitoring and data management systems, and  sustainability and eco-environmental policies for the rivers, lakes, estuaries, coasts, and wetlands in the watershed are the main common factors that characterize the manuscripts published on this special issue.

Dr. Wei Yang
Dr. Qiang Liu
Dr. Xin'an Yin
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Aquatic funtion and processes category
    • water purification
    • carbon sequestration
    • primary productivity
    • ecological restoration
    • energy flow
    • ecological modelling
    • aquatic food web
    • biodiversity maintance
  • Aquatic assessment category
    • ecological health
    • ecological risk
    • hydrological connectivity
    • functional connectivity
    • valuation
    • indictors
  • Aquatic management system category
    • restoration
    • solutions
    • biomanipulation
    • environmental flow regulation
    • reservoir regulation

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15 pages, 6004 KiB  
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Collaborative Ecological Flow Decision Making under the Bengbu Sluice Based on Ecological-Economic Objectives
by Ying Pei, Baohong Lu, Yang Song, Yan Yang, Xinyue Feng and Wenlong Shen
Water 2022, 14(24), 4133; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14244133 - 19 Dec 2022
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Abstract
The construction of dams destroys the integrity of a watershed system and the continuity of natural water flow, creating a watershed with segmented and fragmented rivers. This, in turn, affects and even destroys the health and stability of the watershed ecosystem. This study [...] Read more.
The construction of dams destroys the integrity of a watershed system and the continuity of natural water flow, creating a watershed with segmented and fragmented rivers. This, in turn, affects and even destroys the health and stability of the watershed ecosystem. This study selected the downstream area of Bengbu Sluice in the Huai River Basin of China as the study area. To address the increasingly prominent ecosystem degradation in the Huai River Basin, ecological flow thresholds were determined using habitat simulation and hydrological approaches for mutual validation. A multi-objective synergistic decision model incorporating ecological and socioeconomic objectives was developed to coordinate the economic and ecological water use conflicts in the study area. The optimal coordinated solution for the ecological flow of important biological habitats in the basin was determined with the multi-objective synergistic method. The results demonstrated that a coordinated solution could guarantee the ecological and economic water demands of the basin. The findings of this study can be used as a reference for scientific guidelines on future ecological operations in dam-controlled rivers. Full article
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