EcohydrologyPub Date : 2024-10-30DOI: 10.1002/eco.2692
Hannah Varani, Ellis Q. Margolis, Esteban H. Muldavin, William T. Pockman
{"title":"Patterns and drivers of cottonwood mortality in the middle Rio Grande, New Mexico, USA","authors":"Hannah Varani, Ellis Q. Margolis, Esteban H. Muldavin, William T. Pockman","doi":"10.1002/eco.2692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2692","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Riparian ecosystems are some of the most valuable and vulnerable on the planet. Riparian tree mortality is increasing in the western United States, where altered streamflows are combining with warming climate. Between 2011 and 2013, one third of an extensive stand of <i>Populus deltoides</i> var. <i>wislizeni</i> (Rio Grande cottonwood) died along the middle Rio Grande on the Pueblo of Santa Ana in New Mexico. Mortality coincided with a severe drought that followed a decade of decreasing streamflow, but it was heterogeneous, with adjacent patches of dead and live trees. The goal of this research was to determine the drivers of mortality to provide insights into future risks of die-off and potential management interventions. We compared tree age, competition, tree-ring widths, sediment particle size and climate influences between live and dead forest patches in a nested plot design. Live and dead trees had similar age, stand density and particle sizes of shallow sediments. Tree-ring widths had the highest correlations with July–September streamflow (1932–2013). All trees had declining ring growth since 1992, coinciding with declining late summer streamflow. An accelerated decline in growth began in 2002, corresponding to recent warmer droughts. Trees that died had lower ring growth 3 years prior to death and in the mid-1900s. Dead trees also had coarser deep sediments 2.4–3.7 m below ground, suggesting that reduced water holding capacity was an important factor for mortality. Water management to increase streamflow during the late summer, especially during times of extended drought, could reduce mortality risk in the face of projected increasingly warm droughts.</p>","PeriodicalId":55169,"journal":{"name":"Ecohydrology","volume":"17 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143121238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
{"title":"Numerical Simulation Study of the Effect of Vegetation Cover on the Flow Characteristics of an Open Channel","authors":"Shengtang Zhang, Wenhao Zhao, Yufen Lan, Jingzhou Zhang","doi":"10.1002/eco.2735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2735","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Vegetation in rivers has a significant influence on flow characteristics. A numerical simulation was conducted to study the impact of different vegetation coverage on the flow characteristics in open channels, using ANSYS Fluent for a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics analysis. The results showed that as vegetation coverage increased, the water resistance effect was enhanced. In experiments with the same vegetation coverage, the group with more vegetation exhibited a more significant flow resistance effect. Additionally, as vegetation coverage increased, the turbulent kinetic energy also increased, with a range of 35.7%–82.5%. In experiments with the same vegetation coverage, the group with more vegetation had higher turbulent kinetic energy, with an increase ranging from 39.8% to 69.8%.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":55169,"journal":{"name":"Ecohydrology","volume":"18 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143633127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
EcohydrologyPub Date : 2024-10-30DOI: 10.1002/eco.2728
Yuanyuan Ma, Hu Liu, Wenzhi Zhao, Li Guo, Qiyue Yang, Yulong Li, Jintao Liu, Omer Yetemen
{"title":"Responses of Soil Water Potential and Plant Physiological Status to Pulsed Rainfall Events in Arid Northwestern China: Implications for Disclosing the Water-Use Strategies of Desert Plants","authors":"Yuanyuan Ma, Hu Liu, Wenzhi Zhao, Li Guo, Qiyue Yang, Yulong Li, Jintao Liu, Omer Yetemen","doi":"10.1002/eco.2728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2728","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Soil water potential (SWP) strongly influences plant productivity and ecosystem functioning, particularly in arid regions characterized by sporadic and pulsed rainfall. This work aims to improve understanding of the response of SWP to varied rainfall pulses, and of the water-use strategies of a widespread C<sub>4</sub> shrub (<i>Haloxylon ammodendron</i>, HA) in arid northwestern China. Rainfall manipulation experiments and field measurements on HA were undertaken to explore the response features of SWP and plant physiological status to pulsed rainfall events of varied magnitudes and durations. The physiological state of HA was evaluated by quantifying critical metrics indicative of plant water-use strategies, including leaf water potential, photosynthetic rate and transpiration rate. The response value of SWP increased with rainfall magnitude and was most affected by three vital factors (antecedent SWP, total rainfall and rainfall intensity). Low antecedent SWP amplifies SWP's sensitivity to subsequent events, accelerating its response to smaller rainfalls (<5 mm) compared with larger ones (>15 mm). Small rainfall can increase SWP by 0.5–2 MPa in the 20-cm layer, sustaining plant physiological activities under high antecedent SWP conditions (>−3.5 MPa), with a maximum average rise in photosynthetic rate of 9.20 ± 0.45 μmol CO<sub>2</sub> m<sup>−2</sup> s<sup>−1</sup>, enhancing HA's water use efficiency to 1.79 ± 0.22 μmol CO<sub>2</sub> mmol<sup>−1</sup> H<sub>2</sub>O. Therefore, small events play a vital role in maintaining SWP and promoting water use of desert plants. Given the nature of plants' utilization of small rainfall events, re-examining ecologically valid SWP thresholds of HA and other similar desert plants is critical.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":55169,"journal":{"name":"Ecohydrology","volume":"18 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143633128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
EcohydrologyPub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1002/eco.2736
Giora J. Kidron, Rafael Kronenfeld, Abraham Starinsky, Christopher McKay
{"title":"Hypolith Distribution Within a Dewy Drainage Basin: Possible Link to Dew or Rather to Rain?","authors":"Giora J. Kidron, Rafael Kronenfeld, Abraham Starinsky, Christopher McKay","doi":"10.1002/eco.2736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2736","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The water source of hypoliths is a matter of controversy, with some scholars advocating the role of nonrainfall water (NRW), principally dew or fog as the main water sources, while others maintain that it is rain. In the Negev Highlands, where lichens cover > 90% of the upper surfaces of cobblestones, hypoliths may also reside on the undersides of these cobblestones. In an attempt to evaluate the possible role of rain, dew and fog, the abundance, cover and chlorophyll content of the hypoliths on 10–20 cm × 5–10 cm cobblestones was measured at five slope locations at the hilltop (HT) and the upper parts of the north-facing (NF), south-facing (SF), east-facing (EF) and west-facing (WF) slopes, which were characterised by contrasting abiotic conditions. Within each slope location, 50 and 10 cobblestones were randomly, respectively, collected to evaluate the abundance and cover and to measure their chlorophyll content. In addition, field measurements were conducted to evaluate the ability of rain, dew and fog to wet the hypoliths. Our results indicate that (a) hypoliths were confined to cobblestones lying loosely on the ground; (b) while similar chlorophyll content characterised patches with hypoliths at all slope locations, their abundance and cover were the highest at NF and WF, followed by HT, with SF and EF exhibiting the lowest values; (c) our measurements did not show direct wetting by dew, fog or rain. We therefore suggest that distillation may be the main source of water. Our suggestion implies that a reduction in rain, but even more importantly, elevated nocturnal temperatures during the rainy period, may have a great negative effect on the hypolithic population.</p>","PeriodicalId":55169,"journal":{"name":"Ecohydrology","volume":"18 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eco.2736","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143633085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
EcohydrologyPub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1002/eco.2729
Pierre Lochin, Hervé Piégay, John C. Stella, Kelly K. Caylor, Lise Vaudor, Michael Bliss Singer
{"title":"Drivers of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Riparian Forest NDVI Along a Hydroclimatic Gradient","authors":"Pierre Lochin, Hervé Piégay, John C. Stella, Kelly K. Caylor, Lise Vaudor, Michael Bliss Singer","doi":"10.1002/eco.2729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2729","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the context of rising global temperatures and their impact on weather patterns and water cycles, understanding the relationship between vegetation and hydroclimatic forcing is critical. Riparian forests are highly vulnerable to hydroclimatic variability, which can significantly affect water availability in the soil on which they primarily depend. Along large rivers, hydroclimatic forcings can vary, resulting in different vegetative responses depending on the local climatic context and site conditions. To explore this, we studied riparian forest greenness along a 512-km river corridor with a 3° latitudinal gradient, analysing the relative contributions of climate (latitude, season, temperature, precipitation) and local hydrological conditions (groundwater). Here, we show that riparian forests along a latitudinal gradient respond differently to hydroclimatic controls, with vegetative dynamics that can be attenuated or accentuated by local site conditions. We combined Sentinel-2 satellite Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data over seven years (2016–2022) with hydroclimatic data to examine riparian forest greenness responses to latitudinal, seasonal and interannual hydroclimatic variability. We found contrasting hydroclimatic controls across the latitudinal gradient, with the northernmost sites predominantly controlled by temperature, while those further south are limited by water availability. In addition, we identified temperature as the primary driver of NDVI throughout the growing season, either positively or negatively. Late season precipitation and high phreatic water availability positively influenced NDVI, emphasising the role of local conditions in governing riparian forest resilience. This study enhances understanding of climate controls on riparian tree greenness, which is critical for designing effective landscape-scale riparian ecosystem management and restoration strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":55169,"journal":{"name":"Ecohydrology","volume":"18 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eco.2729","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
EcohydrologyPub Date : 2024-10-27DOI: 10.1002/eco.2723
Antonio Coppola, Raffaella Zucaro, Silvia Baralla, Marco Satta, Myriam Ruberto, Alessandro Comegna, Giovanna Dragonetti, Shawkat Basel Mostafa Hassan
{"title":"Monitoring and Modelling Fluxes of Water and Nutrients to Surface Drainage Network From Irrigated Agricultural Fields in a Hydraulically Reclaimed Coastal Area","authors":"Antonio Coppola, Raffaella Zucaro, Silvia Baralla, Marco Satta, Myriam Ruberto, Alessandro Comegna, Giovanna Dragonetti, Shawkat Basel Mostafa Hassan","doi":"10.1002/eco.2723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2723","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper describes the application of a physically based agrohydrological model (named FLOWS), coupled with a kinematic wave approach model (named KWV) for water and solute runoff routing, for interpreting the fate of water and nutrients coming from cultivated fields to surface drainage network located in ‘Piana del Sassu’ in the Arborea plain, a hydraulically reclaimed area with shallow groundwater. Modelling was supported by a large complex database on soil, groundwater and surface drainage water, which was used for establishing the boundary conditions for simulations, as well as for calibrating and validating the model. The model FLOWS provided the water and nutrient fluxes to the surface water, which were passed to the KWV model for their routing along the elementary fields in the experimental area and from these to the ditches and finally to the drainage channel. The modelling approach effectively predicted the water and solute distribution along the soil profile, as well as the losses of water and nutrients to the surface water. The results showed a significant amount of water and dissolved nutrients to flow quickly from the soil uppermost layer to the surface drainage network during both the irrigation season and during rainfall events. During irrigation applications, losses were mostly due to rainfall intensity exceeding the maximum infiltration velocity of the shallow soil layer in the case of sprinkler irrigation and to subsurface lateral drainage in the case of exceeding irrigation water provided by drip irrigation. This makes the Sassu plain a significant contributor of nutrients (nitrate and phosphorus) to the surface water. Consequently, even though the agricultural activities might not be an important issue for the groundwater vulnerability, the management of water and nutrients should be significantly improved to avoid ecohydrological threats to the important coastal water bodies present in the area.</p>","PeriodicalId":55169,"journal":{"name":"Ecohydrology","volume":"17 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eco.2723","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143120098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
EcohydrologyPub Date : 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1002/eco.2732
Zhang Haiqi
{"title":"Analysis of Spatiotemporal Evolution and Influencing Factors of Water Poverty and Ecological Resilience Coupling Coordination in Chinese","authors":"Zhang Haiqi","doi":"10.1002/eco.2732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2732","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study advances the understanding of urban sustainability by examining the interplay between water poverty and ecological resilience in China's megacities—a critical yet underexplored domain. Spanning a decade from 2013 to 2022, we leverage unique data sets from 10 megacities and introduce a pioneering coupling coordination model. This model is the cornerstone of our methodological innovation, allowing for an integrated analysis of the coupling relationship and spatiotemporal evolution of water poverty and ecological resilience. Our first innovation lies in applying this novel model, which provides a nuanced perspective on the dynamic linkages between water scarcity and ecosystem robustness. We reveal that from 2013 to 2022, there has been a significant upward trend in the comprehensive evaluation indices, with water poverty and ecological resilience witnessing a 166.13% and 204.29% increase, respectively. This underscores the substantial improvements achieved in these critical areas. Secondly, our research innovates by offering a detailed spatiotemporal analysis, highlighting the strengthening coupling and coordination degree between water poverty and ecological resilience over the observed period. The case of Wuhan, with a remarkable coupling coordination index of 9.305 in 2022, exemplifies a city that has reached a highly coordinated status, marking a significant advancement in urban environmental synergy. Lastly, our use of the Tobit model to explore the main influencing factors offers new insights into the drivers of the coupling and coordination level. We find that economic development, industrial structure and technological innovation positively influence this level, whereas population density and urbanization exert negative pressures.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":55169,"journal":{"name":"Ecohydrology","volume":"18 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143633111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
EcohydrologyPub Date : 2024-10-13DOI: 10.1002/eco.2727
Sean Luis, Gregory B. Pasternack
{"title":"Hydraulic Microhabitats at a Regulated River Confluence Influence Chinook Salmon Migratory Routing During Drought","authors":"Sean Luis, Gregory B. Pasternack","doi":"10.1002/eco.2727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2727","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Successful upstream adult migration of Pacific salmon (<i>Oncorhynchus spp</i>.) from estuary to spawning grounds is critical to population recovery, especially during increasingly extreme droughts that degrade migratory habitat. In regulated systems, river confluences can pose significant navigation impediments given complex operational flow release criteria and other cumulative effects. Differing discharge magnitudes and ratios between tributaries may cause divergent confluence hydraulics and hydraulic microhabitat selectivity, influencing migratory routing. This study asks with respect to confluences: (1) Do magnitudes of discharge in each confluence tributary (and resulting combined discharge) influence availability of preferred hydraulic microhabitats in one river versus the other? (2) Does the ratio of discharge magnitudes influence availability of preferred hydraulic microhabitats in one river versus the other? We used data collected from California Central Valley fall-run Chinook salmon (<i>Oncorhynchus tshawytscha</i>) at the confluence of the Feather and Yuba Rivers as a model system to investigate. We combined observations of migratory behavioural responses to hydraulic microhabitats from dual-frequency identification sonars, spatially explicit, meter-resolution hydrodynamic modelling, and machine learning to generate a hydraulic microhabitat selectivity index and simulate upstream migratory pathways for nine pertinent discharge scenarios with four discharge ratios. Statistically significant (<i>p</i> < 0.01) differences in preferred hydraulic habitat were found among both discharge scenarios and ratios, with the Feather River selected in five out of nine scenarios. Discharge magnitude and ratio act as controls on distribution of preferred hydraulic microhabitats, and under certain conditions relevant to drought operations in this system, they can influence migratory routing and propensity of straying.</p>","PeriodicalId":55169,"journal":{"name":"Ecohydrology","volume":"18 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eco.2727","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143632860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
EcohydrologyPub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1002/eco.2724
Shikang Liu, Yuqian Xi, Chengdi Zhang, Wenyi Zhang, Lijian Ouyang, William Bol Yaak Giet, Dongzi Pan, Weiwei Yao
{"title":"Determining the Fish Migration Patterns Based on Fish Habitat Assessment at a River Confluence","authors":"Shikang Liu, Yuqian Xi, Chengdi Zhang, Wenyi Zhang, Lijian Ouyang, William Bol Yaak Giet, Dongzi Pan, Weiwei Yao","doi":"10.1002/eco.2724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2724","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Much effort has been devoted to predicting fish migration routes to assist target species migration, and yet, fish migration science and practice remain imperfect. This study aimed to predict the migration paths of <i>Gymnocypris przewalskii</i> at the river confluence in the Qinghai Lake basin. The authors proposed an approach for fish migration route prediction, which involves a hydrodynamic module, a habitat model and a fish migration module. The TELEMAC-MASCARET system was used to simulate hydrodynamic conditions and statistical analyses were carried out. During the flood season, <i>G. przewalskii</i> migrates downstream, whereas during the migratory season, they migrate upstream. The results indicate that flow velocity was the most significant hydrodynamic parameter affecting fish migration behaviour. The optimal flow velocity range for the target fish species was between 0.7 and 1.7 m/s. The impact of water depth was only observed in low discharge situations. Besides, the temperature plays a vital role in determining fish migration and abundance. However, the results reveal that in the morning hours, the temperature exhibits a range of 10°C to 16°C, and in the noon, the average temperature ranges from 16°C to 19°C, with a maximum temperature reaching 23°C. These temperature variations enable fish to migrate towards the tributary offering a more favourable water temperature during route selection at a river confluence. The study concludes that future research should consider incorporating the swimming capacity of the focal fish species to provide insights into fish migration patterns.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":55169,"journal":{"name":"Ecohydrology","volume":"17 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
EcohydrologyPub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1002/eco.2719
Abuzer Çelekli, Büşra Uygun, Mehmet Yavuzatmaca, Ömer Lekesiz, Muzaffer Dügel
{"title":"Assessment of Ecological Status of Streams by Macrophyte Biological Index in Kahramanmaras Province (Turkiye)","authors":"Abuzer Çelekli, Büşra Uygun, Mehmet Yavuzatmaca, Ömer Lekesiz, Muzaffer Dügel","doi":"10.1002/eco.2719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2719","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change and human-induced pollution threaten freshwater systems. In the present study, it was aimed to evaluate the macrophytes-stressor relations and ecological quality status based on the Macrophyte Biological Index for Rivers (<i>Indice Biologique Macrophytique en Rivière</i> [IBMR]) index of 25 streams sampled in the spring (rainy) and autumn (dry) seasons of 2021 in Kahramanmaraş province. A total of 53 macrophyte taxa were identified, and <i>Lycopus europaeus</i>, <i>Mentha longifolia</i>, <i>Mentha aquatica</i>, <i>Juncus</i> sp., <i>Cladophora glomerata</i> and <i>Carex</i> sp. were common taxa. Canonical correspondence analysis results indicated significant effects of total phosphorus, nitrite, dissolvent oxygen, electrical conductivity, bromate and boron on the distribution of macrophytes among streams, which was supported by results of the weighted average regression analysis. The IBMR indicated that the ecological quality status varied from bad to good in the studied streams. Deterioration in the water quality of a few ecosystems in the dry season compared to the rainy season was elucidated by the IBMR, which also distinguished the ecological conditions of streams. Results highlight that macrophyte species are one of the most important bioindicators to evaluate the ecological status of streams in Kahramanmaraş province due to their sensitivity to changes in environmental conditions. All suggest that IBMR can be used to evaluate the ecological health of streams in the Mediterranean region.</p>","PeriodicalId":55169,"journal":{"name":"Ecohydrology","volume":"17 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eco.2719","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}