Land cover change and its implication to hydrological regimes and soil erosion in Awash River basin, Ethiopia: a systematic review

SY Tola, A Shetty - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Awash River basin is one of the most developed basins in Ethiopia, and its
water resources are crucial to development. The collective impact of land cover (LC) …

Small hydraulic structures, big environmental problems: is it possible to mitigate the negative impacts of culverts on stream biota?

P Frankiewicz, A Radecki-Pawlik… - Environmental …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
This study is a broad and critical review of the transdisciplinary literature on the construction
of culverts and their impacts on stream hydrology and geomorphology as well as on stream …

A cost‐benefit analysis of afforestation as a climate change adaptation measure to reduce flood risk

R Dittrich, T Ball, A Wreford, D Moran… - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Increased river flood frequency is considered a major risk under climate change. Protecting
vulnerable communities is, therefore, a key public policy objective. Natural flood …

Influence of land cover data sources on estimation of direct runoff according to SCS-CN and modified SME methods

A Walega, T Salata - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to assess the accuracy of direct runoff depth calculated according
to an original Soil Conservation Service–Curve Number (SCS-CN) method and a modified …

Estimation of CN parameter for small agricultural watersheds using asymptotic functions

T Kowalik, A Walega - Water, 2015 - mdpi.com
This paper investigates a possibility of using asymptotic functions to determine the value of
curve number (CN) parameter as a function of rainfall in small agricultural watersheds. It …

Upstream solutions to downstream problems: Investing in rural natural infrastructure for water quality improvement and flood risk mitigation

KM Suttles, AJ Eagle, EL McLellan - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Communities across the globe are experiencing degraded water quality as well as inland
flooding, and these problems are anticipated to worsen with climate change. We review the …

Estimating the effect of deforestation on runoff in small mountainous basins in Slovakia

M Danáčová, G Földes, MM Labat, S Kohnová… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
The paper aims to assess the impact of deforestation due to windstorms on runoff in small
mountain river basins. In the Boca and Ipoltica River basins, changes in forested areas were …

The assessment of regulatory ecosystem services: the case of the sediment retention service in a mountain landscape in the Southern Romanian Carpathians

SM Bogdan, I Pătru-Stupariu, L Zaharia - Procedia Environmental Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
The ecosystem services concept offers an interdisciplinary approach to the integrative study
of both socio-economical and ecological systems. The sediment retention service is …

Applicability of a nu-support vector regression model for the completion of missing data in hydrological time series

J Langhammer, J Česák - Water, 2016 - mdpi.com
This paper analyzes the potential of a nu-support vector regression (nu-SVR) model for the
reconstruction of missing data of hydrological time series from a sensor network. Sensor …

Usefulness of the modified NRCS-CN method for the assessment of direct runoff in a mountain catchment

A Wałęga, A Rutkowska - Acta Geophysica, 2015 - Springer
The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of modified methods, developed on the
basis of NRCS-CN method, in determining the size of an effective rainfall (direct runoff). The …