Monitoring and assessment of environmental impacts of droughts (SC120024) : work package 1 – literature synthesis. Final report

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Acreman, Michael; Blake, James; Carvalho, Laurence; Edwards, Francois; Elliott, Alex; Gunn, Iain; Hinsley, Shelley; Laize, Cedric; May, Linda; Mountford, Owen; Nunn, Miles; Preston, Christopher; Sayer, Emma; Schonrogge, Karsten; Spears, Bryan; Spurgeon, Dave; Stratford, Charlie; Winfield, Ian. 2012 Monitoring and assessment of environmental impacts of droughts (SC120024) : work package 1 – literature synthesis. Final report. Bristol, UK, Environment Agency, 85pp. (CEH Project Number: C04647)

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Abstract/Summary

The objective of this report is to present a brief synthesis of a targeted literature review aimed at highlighting the long and short term ecological impacts of drought by answering the following key questions: 1. What impacts do droughts have on ecosystems (including differentiating the impacts of winter (including flushing flows) and summer droughts)? 2. Depending on the severity of the drought, how quickly do aquatic ecosystems (including rivers, lakes, wetlands and ponds) recover? 3. Can we incorporate any impacts resulting from climate change into our understanding and conceptual models? 4. What are the long term ecological impacts (if any) and can we define the threshold(s) beyond which rivers, lakes, wetlands and ponds are “permanently” altered and deliver reduced ecosystem services? 5. Are we and/or our partners collecting the right information to answer these questions?

Item Type:	Report (UNSPECIFIED)
Programmes:	CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 onwards > Water > WA Topic 3 - Science for Water Management > WA - 3.4 - Develop novel and improved methods to enable the sustainable management of freshwaters and wetlands
CEH Sections:	Acreman Hails Parr Pywell Watt
Funders/Sponsors:	Environment Agency
Additional Keywords:	drought, low flow, ecological impact, environmental impact
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	10 Dec 2012 12:08
URI:	http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20116

Item Type:

Report (UNSPECIFIED)

Programmes:

CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 onwards > Water > WA Topic 3 - Science for Water Management > WA - 3.4 - Develop novel and improved methods to enable the sustainable management of freshwaters and wetlands

CEH Sections:

Acreman
Hails
Parr
Pywell
Watt

Funders/Sponsors:

Environment Agency

Additional Keywords:

drought, low flow, ecological impact, environmental impact

NORA Subject Terms:

Ecology and Environment