Impacts of Local Land-Use Change on Climate and Hydrology
Windhorst D, Silva B, Peters T, Meyer H, Thies B, Bendix J, Frede HG, Breuer L (2013)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2013
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Edited Volumes: Ecosystem services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador. Ecological Studies
Series: Ecological Studies
City/Town: Heidelberg
Book Volume: 221
Pages Range: 275-286
ISBN: 978-3-642-38137-9
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38137-9_20
Abstract
Land-use change has a potentially large impact on local water resources and climatic conditions in montane rainforest ecosystems of the Andes. Based on local meteorological observations and site-specific simulation studies involving a coupled hydrological model and a soil–vegetation–atmosphere transfer scheme, we are able to predict likely changes of water and energy fluxes for different land-use categories. To anticipate the effect of future land-use change on the water and energy budgets of the study area, we use results of statistically derived land-use scenarios and a coupled plot scale model representing the dominant land-use types for further upscaling. After assessing the impact of land-use change on ecosystem services we conclude that climate regulation will be decreasing due to a likely increase in drought vulnerability and that the discharge will remain stable or even slightly increase, thereby positively effecting provisioning and regulating hydrological services.
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APA:
Windhorst, D., Silva, B., Peters, T., Meyer, H., Thies, B., Bendix, J.,... Breuer, L. (2013). Impacts of Local Land-Use Change on Climate and Hydrology. In Jörg Bendix, Erwin Beck, Achim Bräuning, Franz Makeschin, Reinhard Mosandl, Stefan Scheu, Wolfgang Wilcke (Eds.), Ecosystem services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador. Ecological Studies. (pp. 275-286). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
MLA:
Windhorst, David, et al. "Impacts of Local Land-Use Change on Climate and Hydrology." Ecosystem services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador. Ecological Studies. Ed. Jörg Bendix, Erwin Beck, Achim Bräuning, Franz Makeschin, Reinhard Mosandl, Stefan Scheu, Wolfgang Wilcke, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2013. 275-286.
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