Journal article
Basin-scale riverine ecosystem services vary with network geometry
S Karki, JA Webb, MJ Stewardson, K Fowler, GR Kattel
Ecosystem Services | Published : 2023
Abstract
Riverine ecosystems provide a variety of services supporting biodiversity, human livelihoods, and the maintenance of river health. Multiple anthropogenic threats to riverine ecosystem services (RES) have been identified and considered in river management strategies. However, the way in which the river network is spatially arranged across the landscape – river network geometry – may also play a role in the delivery of RES. Here we studied the effect of river network geometry on the delivery of five RES in 14 catchments of the Great Barrier Reef region, Australia. Our investigation has three parts. First, we conducted a sensitivity analysis on modelled RES, holding all non-geometric catchment ..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
SK would like to acknowledge the Australia Awards-Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship and Fellowship by the Australian Department of Education and Training. KF and MS's work is funded by the Australian Research Council's project LP170100598 "Vulnerabilities for environmental water outcomes in a variable and changing climate. "GRK would like to thank the Longshan Professorship and the talent grant (#1511582101011) at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and the National Key Research Program of China Grants (#2016YFC0402900, #2016YFE0201900) at Tsinghua University (Beijing). The authors would like to acknowledge the Queensland Department of Environment and Science for providing the water quality monitoring data, David Sternberg and Mark Kennard for providing fish data, and Shuci Liu for providing catchment data for this study.