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Coupling land-use change and hydrologic models for quantification of catchment ecosystem services

Coupling land-use change and hydrologic models for quantification of catchment ecosystem services

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августа 2018
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handle:10568/97542
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35
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Representation of land-use and hydrologic interactions in respective models has traditionally been problematic. The use of static land-use in most hydrologic models or that of the use of simple hydrologic proxies in land-use change models call for more integrated approaches. The objective of this study is to assess whether dynamic feedback between land-use change and hydrology can (1) improve model performances, and/or (2) produce a more realistic quantification of ecosystem services. To test this, we coupled a land-use change model and a hydrologic mode. First, the land-use change and the hydrologic models were separately developed and calibrated. Then, the two models were dynamically coupled to exchange data at yearly time-steps. The approach is applied to a catchment in South Africa. Performance of coupled models when compared to the uncoupled models were marginal, but the coupled models excelled at the quantification of catchment ecosystem services more robustly.

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Yalew, S. G.
Pilz, T.
Schweitzer, C.
Liersch, S.
Kwast, J. van der
Griensven, A. van
Mul, Marloes L.
Dickens, Chris

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