2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/21/2018 | 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | MONITORING URBAN FORESTED HEADWATERS FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF URBAN WATERSHED MANAGEMENT | 310 A
MONITORING URBAN FORESTED HEADWATERS FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF URBAN WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
Headwaters are critically important in mediating the movement of nutrients and other materials to adjacent riparian zones, groundwater, and larger downstream systems. Headwater systems also harbor distinct species contributing to alpha diversity and increasing beta diversity at the watershed level. Across urbanizing landscapes watershed hydrology, biogeochemistry, and diversity is altered and the impact on headwaters may be disproportionately impacted. The study of forested urban headwaters is important to better understand these urban impacts on both headwaters and downstream networks. We will present seasonal data collected at 11 sites since 2012 quantifying macroinvertebrate diversity, nutrient concentrations, and groundwater-surface water interactions in the headwaters of Reedy Creek, a 6.5km2 urban forested watershed in Charlotte, NC. We found that small differences in land use in the subwatersheds (urban and agricultural) resulted in higher nutrient concentrations, lower diversity (taxa and EPT richness), and differences in water residence time compared to the forested subwatershed. These subwatersheds are currently undergoing restoration which will provide an interesting case study on the effects of restoration on forested headwater stream structure and function and the role headwater restoration plays in improving urban water quality at the larger watershed scale.
- Monitoring
- Water Quality
- Restoration
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Sandra Clinton, PhD
(), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, sclinto1@uncc.edu;
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Sara McMillan
(), Purdue University, mcmill@purdue.edu;
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David Vinson, PhD
(), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, dsvinson@uncc.edu;
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