An Eco-hydro-geomorphic Perspective to Modeling the Role of Climate in Catchment Evolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5877515 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erkan Istanbulluoğlu (0000-0001-9453-4676, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1151-1175 |
| Publication date | 2009-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00229.x |
| OpenAlex | W2013827105 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 127 |
Climate is the energizer of the landscape system. Geomorphic response of a catchment integrates a wide range of climate-driven coupled biotic-abiotic processes along topographic flow paths. As such, modeling the impacts of climate in landscape evolution requires a holistic approach, involving basin ecological and hydrological states, primitive in existing numerical models. To facilitate future model developments, a conceptual diagram of a holistic approach for modeling the role of climate in landscape evolution is presented. We identify hydrology and vegetation dynamics as critical components of future landscape evolution models and discuss how different runoff generation and simple vegetation growth-death processes impact modeled catchment morphology and sediment yields. We illustrate fundamental differences observed in eco-hydro-geomorphic processes across climates using examples from the literature, and emphasize the importance of these differences on catchment evolution. The article concludes with the opinion that simplistic modeling approaches that capture the salient aspects of dominant climate-soil-vegetation-erosion interactions observed in different climates should be adopted in landscape evolution models. This dominant-process approach would also stimulate extensive process-based field research, necessary for the merger of field and modeling perspectives in geomorphology
Cartography · Climate change · Drainage basin · Environmental resource management · Geography · Surface runoff · Environmental Science · Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes · Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies · Soil erosion and sediment transport · Ecology · Geology
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Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary
Climate Extremes
Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO 2 and climate change
A physically based, variable contributing area model of basin hydrology / Un modèle à base physique de zone d'appel variable de l'hydrologie du bassin versant
Hillslope Materials and Processes
Thresholds and lags in geomorphologic changes
Channel Link Density and Ground Slope∗
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