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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 6, Pages 2072-2078Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es902654f
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- National Science Foundation [EAR 0711594]
- Competence Center Environment and Sustainability of the ETH Domain (CCES) SwissEx
- National Center of Competence in Research: Mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS
- European Commission [224416]
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [0930061] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [0929638] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Elevated in-stream temperature has led to a surge in the occurrence of parasitic intrusion proliferative kidney disease and has resulted in fish kills throughout Switzerland's waterways. Data from distributed temperature sensing (DTS) in-stream measurements for three cloud-free days in August 2007 over a 1260 m stretch of the Boiron de Morges River in southwest Switzerland were used to calibrate and validate a physically based one-dimensional stream temperature model. Stream temperature response to three distinct riparian conditions were then modeled: open, in-stream reeds, and forest cover. Simulation predicted a mean peak stream temperature increase of 0.7 degrees C if current vegetation was removed, an increase of 0.1 degrees C if dense reeds covered the entire stream reach, and a decrease of 1.2 degrees C if a mature riparian forest covered the entire reach. Understanding that full vegetation canopy cover is the optimal riparian management option for limiting stream temperature, in-stream reeds, which require no riparian set-aside and grow very quickly, appear to provide substantial thermal control, potentially useful for land-use management.
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