Hydric potential of the river basin: Prądnik, Polish Highlands
Authors:
- Tomáš Lepeška,
- Artur Radecki-Pawlik,
- Jakub Wojkowski,
- Andrzej Walega
Abstract
Human society deals with floods, drought and water pollution. Facing those problems, the question how to prevent or at least to minimalize the adverse effects of water-related issues is asked of the landscape managers. In this way, any help given to landscape managers seems to be an additional useful tool. Within this paper, an approach leading to mitigation of water-related problems is presented that relates the retention of precipitation and the use of ecosystems as a tool for improving the quality, quantity of water resources and availability throughout the region. One approach is the determination of the landscape’s hydric potential (LHP). This study examines one example of using this method within the conditions of Poland. The results of the research show that national data are entirely appropriate for implementation of the LHP method. Further, this approach revealed the classes of the hydric potential of the Prądnik river basin which was selected as the experimental territory. LHP results reflect the ecosystem attributes of the model river basin; areas of average LHP cover 63.26%, areas of high and limited hydric potential cover approximately 18.3% each. The spatial distribution of LHP means the results of this study provide a baseline for management of the river basin.
- Record ID
- CUT8d5b4beabaca4e70bfe303a0d9e6ccae
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Acta Geophysica, ISSN 1895-6572, e-ISSN 1895-7455
- Issue year
- 2017
- Vol
- 65
- No
- 6
- Pages
- 1253-1267
- Other elements of collation
- rys.; tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 1265-1267; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Data udostępnienia on-line - 2017-11-03; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 65, Iss. 6
- Keywords in English
- river basin management, ecohydrology, water resources, drought, flood, Poland
- DOI
- DOI:10.1007/s11600-017-0093-y Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11600-017-0093-y Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 20
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science, Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT8d5b4beabaca4e70bfe303a0d9e6ccae/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT8d5b4beabaca4e70bfe303a0d9e6ccae
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