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Streamflow and Groundwater Response to Stream Restoration Using Beaver Dam Analogues in a Semi-Arid Perennial Stream

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Journal of The American Water Resources Association Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13254

Lily Bosworth, Rose M. Smith, Adam Culbertson, Logan R. Jamison, Paul Burnett, Paul D. Brooks

{"title":"Streamflow and Groundwater Response to Stream Restoration Using Beaver Dam Analogues in a Semi-Arid Perennial Stream","authors":"Lily Bosworth, Rose M. Smith, Adam Culbertson, Logan R. Jamison, Paul Burnett, Paul D. Brooks","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13254","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Degradation of stream and riparian environments across the western United States has damaged critical ecosystems, water quality, and increased sedimentation of reservoirs. Low tech, process-based restoration methods such as beaver dam analogues (BDAs) have been adopted by practitioners because they restore ecosystem function, improve habitat, and reduce downstream sediment delivery at a low cost. However, few studies have examined the potential impacts of beaver dam analogues on the quantity and timing of streamflow, which is of primary concern for water stakeholders. We address this gap with 2 years of streamflow and riparian groundwater observations before and after installing a series of 17 BDAs on Fish Creek, a first-order stream in semi-arid northern Utah. Within 8 weeks of BDA installation, and 1 year later, we found no significant change in streamflow compared with control and Regional Reference sites. Shallow groundwater table elevations within 7 m of the stream edge increased significantly, up to 14 cm, relative to the control reach. Our results suggest that the small, local hydrological changes from BDA installation are superimposed on much larger-scale snowmelt and alluvial groundwater controls on streamflow, suggesting BDA installation can restore ecosystem function without deleterious impacts on streamflow. These findings are especially relevant to restoration and water stakeholders with concerns about impacts of BDAs on downstream flows.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing the Impacts of Water Diversion Project on Water Resource System Sustainability

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Journal of The American Water Resources Association Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13255

Wen Chen, Ruikang Zhang, Dedi Liu, Junde Wang, Yufei Cheng, Jie Chen

{"title":"Assessing the Impacts of Water Diversion Project on Water Resource System Sustainability","authors":"Wen Chen, Ruikang Zhang, Dedi Liu, Junde Wang, Yufei Cheng, Jie Chen","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13255","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Interbasin water diversion project has been considered as an effective way to assure water resource system sustainability. In order to assess the impacts of water diversion on sustainability, we propose a framework in terms of reliability, resilience, and vulnerability. The estimated water availability from hydrological models and the projected water demand are input to a water resource allocation model. The water resource allocation model allocates the two available water sources (i.e., the local and the diverted water) in the water-receiving areas. The differences of the allocated water resources between these two water sources are figured out to quantify the impacts of water diversion on water resource system sustainability. The water-receiving area of Bailong River Water Diversion Project, located in Gansu, China, was selected as a case study. The results show that compared to the reference planning years, the runoff in future planning years will be reduced, while their water demands will almost increase under all scenarios. Although the current designed water diversion scheme is effective in increasing resilience, there is still potential for increasing resilience through optimizing the designed scheme. Further, the more unfavorable the water supply and demand conditions are, the larger the space for optimizing the system sustainability. This study can help understand the impacts of water diversion on water resource system sustainability in a changing environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1752-1688.13255","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing the Role of Data in Operational Decisions and Risk Planning for Water Permit Holders

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Journal of The American Water Resources Association Pub Date : 2025-01-14 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13253

Sarah Whateley, Laureline Josset, Catherine Gibson, Stuart Lowrie, George Schuler

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Engaging the Earth Science and Engineering Communities in Developing A River Morphology Information System (RIMORPHIS)

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Journal of The American Water Resources Association Pub Date : 2025-01-06 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13252

Amanda L. Cox, Marian Muste, Venkatesh Merwade, Ibrahim Demir, J. Toby Minear, Sayan Dey, Chung-Yuan Liang, Yusuf Sermet

{"title":"Engaging the Earth Science and Engineering Communities in Developing A River Morphology Information System (RIMORPHIS)","authors":"Amanda L. Cox, Marian Muste, Venkatesh Merwade, Ibrahim Demir, J. Toby Minear, Sayan Dey, Chung-Yuan Liang, Yusuf Sermet","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13252","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>River morphology data are critical for understanding and studying river processes and for managing rivers for multiple socio-economic uses. While such data have been extensively acquired, several issues hinder their use such as data accessibility, various data formats, lack of data models for storage, and lack of processing tools to assemble data in products readily usable for research, management, and education. A multi-university research team has prototyped a web-based river morphology information system (RIMORPHIS) for hosting and creating new information (e.g., terrain and material composition data) and data processing tools for the broader earth science communities. The RIMORPHIS design principles include: (i) broad access via a publicly and freely available platform-independent system; (ii) flexibility in handling existing and future data types; (iii) user-friendly and interactive interfaces; and (iv) interoperability and scalability to ensure platform sustainability. Developing such an ambitious community resource is only possible and impactful by continuously engaging stakeholders from the project inception. This paper highlights the research team's strategy and activities to engage with river morphology data producers and potential users from academia, research, and practice. The paper also details outcomes of stakeholder engagement and illustrates how these interactions are positively shaping RIMORPHIS development and its path to long-term sustainability.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Tidal–hydrological dynamics of water temperature across freshwater forested wetlands on the northeastern Pacific coast

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Journal of The American Water Resources Association Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13249

Kate E. Buenau, Heida L. Diefenderfer, Maggie A. Mckeon, Amy B. Borde

{"title":"Tidal–hydrological dynamics of water temperature across freshwater forested wetlands on the northeastern Pacific coast","authors":"Kate E. Buenau, Heida L. Diefenderfer, Maggie A. Mckeon, Amy B. Borde","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13249","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tidal freshwater forests were once extensive across temperate coastlines, but loss and fragmentation have made estimation of their ecosystem functions challenging. We measured water temperature for 2 years in three Sitka spruce tidal forests, a restoration site, and an adjacent emergent marsh on the Columbia River, Washington, United States. We assessed spatial variability of water temperature within sites including the effects of hydrology, differences among bay and tributary tidal forests, and differences between the tidal forests and the mainstem Columbia, the restoration site, and the emergent marsh. The tidal forests nearest to the bay had lower interior water temperatures than their channel confluences by up to 2.5°C (weekly median temperature) and 2.0°C (weekly maximum temperature), with most cooling occurring during the low-flow months of July–September. Tributary sites had maximum temperatures up to 1.9°C cooler than bay sites and 4.2°C cooler than the mainstem. Temperatures in the two bay sites decreased by −0.16°C/100 m and −0.07°C/100 m, on average. The restoration site had the smallest within-site temperature gradient. Differences in maximum temperatures were greatest when tidal range was low, while higher tidal ranges were associated with warmer and more variable site interiors relative to their confluences. These results suggest that water temperatures in these tidal forests can provide temperature refugia for cold water biota including salmon.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1752-1688.13249","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Predictability and behavior of water transfers across basin boundaries

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Journal of The American Water Resources Association Pub Date : 2024-12-31 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13250

Ken Eng, Laura Medalie, Kenneth D. Skinner, Tamara I. Ivahnenko, Julian A. Heilman, Jared D. Smith

{"title":"Predictability and behavior of water transfers across basin boundaries","authors":"Ken Eng, Laura Medalie, Kenneth D. Skinner, Tamara I. Ivahnenko, Julian A. Heilman, Jared D. Smith","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13250","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Inter-basin water transfers (IBTs) are important components of water balances of basins, and they can have substantial impact on regional water availability. Flow information is often not available at locations with known IBTs, which is a drawback in several published IBT databases. Few, if any, studies examine whether IBT flow behavior can be generalized, and if these behaviors can be predicted at undocumented locations or known IBT locations with no flow information. In this study, we employ a clustering method based on image matching to identify similar classes of flow behavior of IBTs. Machine learning models are used to assess how well IBT flow characteristics (e.g., average flow) associated with these behaviors can be predicted. These evaluations of IBTs are done for two regions in the United States. Three primary classes of IBTs (seasonal, nonseasonal/not mixed, and seasonal/mixed) are identified across the two regions analyzed. The IBT flow characteristics are accurately predicted in the northeast region. In the Colorado region, however, only the flow characteristics related to timing were accurately predicted. These results indicate that the proposed modeling framework can be used to identify generalizable IBT flow characteristics. This framework is shown to predict flow characteristics with a reasonable amount of accuracy to undocumented locations and improves previously published IBT databases by backfilling flow information to locations with a known IBT presence.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1752-1688.13250","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143121512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reconstructing seasonal unimpaired runoff volumes to the San Francisco Estuary: Extending the available record back to water year 1872

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Journal of The American Water Resources Association Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13247

Yuchuan Lai, Paul H. Hutton, Sujoy B. Roy

{"title":"Reconstructing seasonal unimpaired runoff volumes to the San Francisco Estuary: Extending the available record back to water year 1872","authors":"Yuchuan Lai, Paul H. Hutton, Sujoy B. Roy","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13247","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Unimpaired flow, also known as “virgin” or “naturalized” flow, is the theoretical runoff that would occur absent human alteration and is a common metric used worldwide to support watershed management, regulation and ecosystem restoration. California water managers use an existing record of unimpaired runoff from 10 watersheds upstream of the San Francisco Estuary to inform a variety of planning and regulatory functions. In this work, we extended the available record by several decades to 1872. This runoff reconstruction, accomplished through a multivariate regression-based modeling approach, used a novel time series methodology that decomposes and combines sparse records measured at varying locations to generate composite temperature and precipitation input for each watershed. Runoff predictions were used to calculate watershed runoff indices and assign water year classifications using current regulatory conventions. The first third of the extended record (1872–1921) has a significantly higher percentage of wet years and a significantly lower percentage of dry and critically dry years compared with the latter two-thirds of the record (1922–2021). Consistent with earlier paleohydrology research, this finding indicates the occurrence of a dramatic decadal-scale hydrologic shift from very wet to very dry conditions during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1752-1688.13247","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Study on simulating the filling and emptying process of ship lock based on Storm Water Management Model

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Journal of The American Water Resources Association Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13248

Jiayi Zhang, Zhenghua Gu, Minxiong Cao

{"title":"Study on simulating the filling and emptying process of ship lock based on Storm Water Management Model","authors":"Jiayi Zhang, Zhenghua Gu, Minxiong Cao","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13248","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) was widely used in hydrological simulation, river network calculation, flood control, and disaster reduction, but it was rarely used in ship lock hydraulics simulation. In this paper, SWMM is used to simulate the water filling and emptying process in ship lock. One-dimensional hydraulic mathematical models are established for the centralized filling and emptying system, simple decentralized filling and emptying system, and complex decentralized filling and emptying system, respectively, and they are applied to Mengli Ship Lock of North River in Guangdong Province, Qiaogong Ship Lock of Hongshui River, and Bajiangkou Ship Lock of Gui River in Guangxi Province of China. Compared with the results from the physical model experiments of ship lock hydraulics, it is shown that SWMM has better simulation effects on the centralized filling and emptying system with short corridor and the simple decentralized filling and emptying system, and their relative errors of filling and emptying time and maximum flow are totally less than 5%. For the complex decentralized filling and emptying system, SWMM has a good simulation effect on the water level change process, but the simulation error of the flow change process is larger relatively, and the relative errors of filling and emptying time and maximum flow are totally less than 10%. In addition, the filling and emptying process simulations are all completed within 5 s for three types of filling and emptying systems. The results show that the mathematical model of ship lock filling and emptying based on SWMM has high operation efficiency and good simulation accuracy and can not only be used as an effective tool for hydraulic calculation of ship lock but also provide mathematical model support for navigation intelligent scheduling.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluating floodplain vegetation after valley-scale restoration with unsupervised classification of National Agriculture Imagery Program data in semi-arid environments

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Journal of The American Water Resources Association Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13245

Jay W. Munyon, Rebecca L. Flitcroft

{"title":"Evaluating floodplain vegetation after valley-scale restoration with unsupervised classification of National Agriculture Imagery Program data in semi-arid environments","authors":"Jay W. Munyon, Rebecca L. Flitcroft","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13245","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Monitoring vegetation response to valley-scale floodplain restoration to evaluate effectiveness can be costly and time-consuming. We used publicly available National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data and commonly used ArcGIS software to assess land cover change over time at five study sites located in semi-arid environments of eastern Oregon and north-central California. Accuracy assessments of our unsupervised classifications were used to evaluate effectiveness. Overall accuracy across sites and years ranged from 64.2% to 89.2% with mean and median accuracy of 79.1% and 80.6%, respectively. Further, we compared our classifications with high-resolution uncrewed aerial systems (UAS)-based data collected in the same timeframe. Restored areas classified as dense vegetation were within 4% of the UAS study, water was within 6%, and post-restoration classifications of sparse vegetation and bare ground classes were within 6% and 4% of the UAS study, respectively. This comparison demonstrates that our unsupervised NAIP data classification of land cover change across entire valley-scale restoration projects can be used to monitor riparian vegetation change over time as accurately as UAS-based methods, but at lower cost. Additionally, our methods leverage existing fine-resolution, pre-restoration vegetation density data that were not collected as part of project planning.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Streamflow simulation improvements enabled by a state-of-the-art algorithm for reservoir routing in the U.S. National Water Model

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Journal of The American Water Resources Association Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13244

Donghui Li, Anav Vora, Ximing Cai

{"title":"Streamflow simulation improvements enabled by a state-of-the-art algorithm for reservoir routing in the U.S. National Water Model","authors":"Donghui Li, Anav Vora, Ximing Cai","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13244","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates whether improvements could be achieved for the United States National Water Model (NWM) by using a data-driven reservoir operation simulation algorithm, that is, the generic data-driven reservoir operation model (GDROM), to replace the existing reservoir representation in NWM for reservoir routing in streamflow simulation. The evaluations of NWM versus NWM + GDROM are conducted using 41-year NWM retrospective simulation products during 1979 to 2020. The results show that NWM + GDROM exhibits significant improvement to NWM in both the entire Contiguous U.S. (CONUS) and various regions. It is found that the accuracy of reservoir inflow and storage values affects the NWM + GDROM improvement. When driven by observed storage (which is usually more accurate than modeled storage) or more accurately simulated inflow, NWM + GDROM produces more significant improvements in reservoir outflow simulations in all the study CONUS regions. Especially, since high flows are more accurately simulated by NWM than low flows, NWM + GDROM has larger improvement for the simulation of high flows than low flows.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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