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EM: Flood regulation capacity of landscapes, Municipality of Etropole, Bulgaria (EM-132)
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EM Identity and Description
EM Identification
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EM ID
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EM-132 |
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EM Short Name
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Flood regulation capacity, Etropole, Bulgaria |
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EM Full Name
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Flood regulation capacity of landscapes, Municipality of Etropole, Bulgaria |
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EM Source or Collection
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EU Biodiversity Action 5 |
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EM Source Document ID
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248 |
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Document Author
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Nedkov, S., Burkhard, B. |
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Document Year
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2012 |
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Document Title
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Flood regulating ecosystem services - Mapping supply and demand, in the Etropole municipality, Bulgaria |
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Document Status
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Peer reviewed and published |
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Comments on Status
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Published journal manuscript |
Software and Access
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Contact Name
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Stoyan Nedkov |
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Contact Address
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National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Street, bl.3, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria |
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Contact Email
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snedkov@abv.bg |
EM Description
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Summary Description
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ABSTRACT: "Floods exert significant pressure on human societies. Assessments of an ecosystem’s capacity to regulate and to prevent floods relative to human demands for flood regulating ecosystem services can provide important information for environmental management. In this study, the capacities of different ecosystems to regulate floods were assessed through investigations of water retention functions of the vegetation and soil cover. Based on spatial land cover units originating from CORINE and further data sets, these regulating ecosystem services were quantified and mapped. Resulting maps show the ecosystems’ flood regulating service capacities in the case study area of the Malki Iskar river basin above the town of Etropole in the northern part of Bulgaria...The resulting map of flood regulation supply capacities shows that the Etropole municipality’s area has relatively high capacities for flood regulation. Areas of high and very high relevant capacities cover about 34% of the study area." AUTHOR'S DESCRIPTION: "The capacities of the identified spatial units were assessed on a relative scale ranging from 0 to 5 (after Burkhard et al., 2009). A 0-value indicates that there is no relevant capacity to supply flood regulating services and a 5-value indicates the highest relevant capacity for the supply of these services in the case study region. Values of 2, 3 and 4 represent respective intermediate supply capacities. Of course it depends on the observer’s estimation and knowledge which function–service relations in general are supposed to be relevant. But, this scale offers an alternative relative evaluation scheme, avoiding the presentation of monetary or normative value-transfer results. The 0–5 capacity values’ classifications for the different land cover types were based on the spatial analyses of different biogeophysical and land use data combined with hydrological modeling as described before…The supply capacities of the land cover classes and soil types in the study area were assigned to every unit in their databases. GIS map layers, containing information about the capacity to supply flood regulation for every polygon, were created. The map of supply capacities of flood regulating ecosystem services was elaborated by overlaying the GIS map layers of the land cover and the soils’ capacities." |
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Specific Policy or Decision Context Cited
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None identified |
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Biophysical Context
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Average elevation is 914 m. The mean annual temperatures gradually decrease from 9.5 to 2 degrees celcius as the elevation increases. The annual precipitation varies from 750 to 800 mm in the northern part to 1100 mm at the highest part of the mountains. Extreme preipitation is intensive and most often concentrated in certain parts of the catchment areas. Soils are represented by 5 main soil types - Cambisols, Rankers, Lithosols, Luvisols, ans Eutric Fluvisols. Most of the forest is deciduous, represented mainly by beech and hornbeam oak. |
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EM Scenario Drivers
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No scenarios presented |
EM Relationship to Other EMs or Applications
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Method Only, Application of Method or Model Run
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Method + Application |
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New or Pre-existing EM?
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New or revised model |
Related EMs (for example, other versions or derivations of this EM) described in ESML
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Document ID for related EM
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Doc-248 | Doc-251 | Doc-252 |
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EM ID for related EM
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EM-130 | EM-133 |
EM Modeling Approach
EM Relationship to Time
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EM Temporal Extent
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Not reported |
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EM Time Dependence
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time-stationary |
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EM Time Reference (Future/Past)
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Not applicable |
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EM Time Continuity
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Not applicable |
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EM Temporal Grain Size Value
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Not applicable |
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EM Temporal Grain Size Unit
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EM Spatial Extent
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Bounding Type
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Geopolitical |
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Spatial Extent Name
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Municipality of Etropole |
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Spatial Extent Area (Magnitude)
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100-1000 km^2 |
Spatial Distribution of Computations
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EM Spatial Distribution
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spatially distributed (in at least some cases) |
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Spatial Grain Type
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other (specify), for irregular (e.g., stream reach, lake basin) |
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Spatial Grain Size
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Distributed by land cover and soil type polygons |
EM Structure and Computation Approach
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EM Computational Approach
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Analytic |
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EM Determinism
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deterministic |
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Statistical Estimation of EM
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Model Checking Procedures Used
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Model Calibration Reported?
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No |
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Model Goodness of Fit Reported?
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No |
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Goodness of Fit (metric| value | unit)
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None |
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Model Operational Validation Reported?
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No |
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Model Uncertainty Analysis Reported?
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No |
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Model Sensitivity Analysis Reported?
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No |
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Model Sensitivity Analysis Include Interactions?
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EM Locations, Environments, Ecology
Location of EM Application
Terrestrial location (Classification hierarchy: Continent > Country > U.S. State [United States only])
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Marine location (Classification hierarchy: Realm > Region > Province > Ecoregion)
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Centroid Lat/Long (Decimal Degree)
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Centroid Latitude
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42.8 |
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Centroid Longitude
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24 |
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Centroid Datum
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WGS84 |
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Centroid Coordinates Status
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Estimated |
Environments and Scales Modeled
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EM Environmental Sub-Class
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Rivers and Streams | Lakes and Ponds | Forests | Agroecosystems | Grasslands | Scrubland/Shrubland |
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Specific Environment Type
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Mountainous flood-prone region |
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EM Ecological Scale
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Ecological scale is finer than that of the Environmental Sub-class |
Scale and taxa of organisms modeled
Scale of differentiation of organisms modeled
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EM Organismal Scale
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Not applicable |
Taxonomic level and name of organisms or groups identified
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EnviroAtlas URL
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| National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHD PlusV2) |
EM Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) potentially modeled, by classification system
CICES v 4.3 - Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (Section > Division > Group > Class)
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(Environmental Subclass > Ecological End-Product (EEP) > EEP Subclass > EEP Modifier)
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EM Variable Names (and Units)
Predictor
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Driving Variables (and Units)
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Constant or Factor Variables (and Units)
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Intermediate
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Intermediate (Computed) Variables (and Units)
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None |
Response
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