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ArticleJournal of advances in modeling earth systems2020

An Integrated Methodology to Study Riparian Vegetation Dynamics: From Field Data to Impact Modeling.

M Latella, M B Bertagni, P Vezza, C Camporeale

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M LatellaDepartment of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering Politecnico di Torino Turin Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3678-6992
M B BertagniDepartment of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering Politecnico di Torino Turin Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5912-4794
P VezzaDepartment of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering Politecnico di Torino Turin Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6784-8036
C CamporealeDepartment of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering Politecnico di Torino Turin Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-6018

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Riparian environments are highly dynamic ecosystems that support biodiversity and numerous services and that are conditioned by anthropogenic activities and climate change. In this work, we propose an integrated methodology that combines different research approaches-field studies and numerical and analytical modeling-in order to calibrate an ecohydrological stochastic model for riparian vegetation. The model yields vegetation biomass statistics and requires hydrological, topographical, and biological data as input. The biological parameters, namely, the carrying capacity and the flood-related decay rate, are the target of the calibration as they are related to intrinsic features of vegetation and site-specific environmental conditions. The calibration is here performed for two bars located within the riparian zone of the Cinca River (Spain). According to our results, the flood-related decay rate has a spatial dependence that reflects the zonation of different plant species over the study site. The carrying capacity depends on the depth of the phreatic surface, and it is adequately described by a right-skewed curve. The calibrated model well reproduces the actual biogeography of the Cinca riparian zone. The overall percentage absolute difference between the real and the computed biomass amounts to 9.3% and 3.3% for the two bars. The model is further used to predict the future evolution of riparian vegetation in a climate-change scenario. The results show that the change of hydrological regime forecast by future climate projections may induce dramatic reduction of vegetation biomass and strongly modify the Cinca riparian biogeography.

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flow‐vegetation interactionsimpact modelsmodel calibrationriparian vegetationstochastic processes

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PMID32999706
PMCPMC7507785

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