hydrology
Hydrological changes can have serious effects on aquatic ecosystems.
The bureau commissioned a hydrological report to examine the effect of the mining on the lake.
Trees, shrubs, and grass are showing dramatic signs of the shortage of water - hydrological stress, the experts call it.

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Examples of hydrological

hydrological
Large-scale destabilization events in hydrological structure of oceans, biotic crises, and corresponding geological records.
Likely effects of land use changes on the runoff and aquifer recharge in a semiarid landscape using a hydrological model.
In general, salinity and acidity result from a substantial change in land use practice that has altered the hydrological balance from catchment to regional scales.
Construction programmes, involving major deforestation, appear to have caused hydrological changes affecting areas of standing water.
Hydrological functions of tropical forests: not seeing the soil for the trees?
The variability of a hydrological variable (precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration, etc.) will increase with smaller time intervals.
The analysis considers the benefits of cloud forests, which provide hydrological benefits, to be higher than that of other forests and quantifies the benefits accordingly.
The number of water-related melioidosis cases were too small to allow useful analysis of water quality, hydrological and geological data.
Under a 'warmer and wetter ' regime, with pervasive and persistent bodies of standing water, there would be an extended hydrological cycle in operation.
Many of these ancient hydrological landforms can now be linked to detailed mineral compositions, obtained by landers and orbiters in the past 10 years.
Eight sampling localities from five separate hydrological systems each yield significantly different morphologies.
Throughfall and canopy interception of rainfall are key elements in any forest hydrological and nutrient cycle.
All of these methods have limitations and typically require extensive hydrological and/or meteorological measurements.
Hydrological fluxes for the study period were calculated for rainfall, throughfall, stemflow, runoff, and infiltration and were summed as the volumeweighted unit based on the three measurements each day.
We model the hydrological service by approximating it as the change in baseflow in the hydrological system, an index that is derived by using a water-balance model.
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