Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them Visible
Mediterranean temporary ponds are a priority habitat according to the Natura 2000 network of the European Union, and complete inventories of these ecosystems are therefore needed. Their small size, short hydroperiod, or severe disturbance make these ponds undetectable by most remote sensing systems....
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| author | Raquel Jiménez-Melero Patricio Bohorquez Inmaculada González-Planet Francisco José Pérez-Latorre Gema Parra |
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| description | Mediterranean temporary ponds are a priority habitat according to the Natura 2000 network of the European Union, and complete inventories of these ecosystems are therefore needed. Their small size, short hydroperiod, or severe disturbance make these ponds undetectable by most remote sensing systems. Here we show, for the first time, that the distributed hydrologic model IBER+ detects ephemeral and even extinct wetlands by fully exploiting the available digital elevation model and resolving many microtopographic features at drainage basin scales of about 1000 km<sup>2</sup>. This paper aims to implement a methodology for siting flood-prone areas that can potentially host a temporary wetland, validating the results with historical orthophotos and existing wetlands inventories. Our model succeeds in dryland endorheic catchments of the Upper Guadalquivir Basin: it has detected 89% of the previously catalogued wetlands and found four new unknown wetlands. In addition, we have found that 24% of the detected wetlands have disappeared because of global change. Subsequently, environmental managers could use the proposed methodology to locate wetlands quickly and cheaply. Finding wetlands would help monitor their conservation and restore them if needed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0104c1f025a449218713a29cbbde98f22023-11-18T21:12:25ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922023-07-011514355310.3390/rs15143553Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them VisibleRaquel Jiménez-Melero0Patricio Bohorquez1Inmaculada González-Planet2Francisco José Pérez-Latorre3Gema Parra4Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, SpainCentre for Advanced Studies in Earth Sciences, Energy and Environment (CEACTEMA), University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, SpainDepartment of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, SpainCentre for Advanced Studies in Earth Sciences, Energy and Environment (CEACTEMA), University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, SpainDepartment of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, SpainMediterranean temporary ponds are a priority habitat according to the Natura 2000 network of the European Union, and complete inventories of these ecosystems are therefore needed. Their small size, short hydroperiod, or severe disturbance make these ponds undetectable by most remote sensing systems. Here we show, for the first time, that the distributed hydrologic model IBER+ detects ephemeral and even extinct wetlands by fully exploiting the available digital elevation model and resolving many microtopographic features at drainage basin scales of about 1000 km<sup>2</sup>. This paper aims to implement a methodology for siting flood-prone areas that can potentially host a temporary wetland, validating the results with historical orthophotos and existing wetlands inventories. Our model succeeds in dryland endorheic catchments of the Upper Guadalquivir Basin: it has detected 89% of the previously catalogued wetlands and found four new unknown wetlands. In addition, we have found that 24% of the detected wetlands have disappeared because of global change. Subsequently, environmental managers could use the proposed methodology to locate wetlands quickly and cheaply. Finding wetlands would help monitor their conservation and restore them if needed.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/14/3553ephemeral wetlanddistributed hydrological modelIBER+Guadalquivir basingraphics processing unit (GPU) |
| spellingShingle | Raquel Jiménez-Melero Patricio Bohorquez Inmaculada González-Planet Francisco José Pérez-Latorre Gema Parra Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them Visible Remote Sensing ephemeral wetland distributed hydrological model IBER+ Guadalquivir basin graphics processing unit (GPU) |
| title | Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them Visible |
| title_full | Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them Visible |
| title_fullStr | Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them Visible |
| title_full_unstemmed | Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them Visible |
| title_short | Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them Visible |
| title_sort | technological advances to rescue temporary and ephemeral wetlands reducing their vulnerability making them visible |
| topic | ephemeral wetland distributed hydrological model IBER+ Guadalquivir basin graphics processing unit (GPU) |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/14/3553 |
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