The Small Water Cycle in the Czech Landscape: How Has It Been Affected by Land Management Changes Over Time?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21110%2F21%3A00353881" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21110/21:00353881 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413757" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413757</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132413757" target="_blank" >10.3390/su132413757</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Small Water Cycle in the Czech Landscape: How Has It Been Affected by Land Management Changes Over Time?

Original language description

For the Czech Republic to recover from the effects of past mismanagement, it is necessary to determine how its landscape management can be improved holistically by reinforcing the small water cycle. We conducted a scenario analysis across four time periods using SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) to determine the effects of land use, land management, and crop rotation shifts since the 1800s in what is now the Czech Republic. The 1852 and 1954 land-use scenarios behaved the most similarly hydrologically across all four scenarios, likely due to minimal landscape transformation and the fact that these two scenarios occur prior to the widespread incorporation of subsurface tile drainages across the landscape. Additionally, the crop rotation of 1920–1938 reinforces the small water cycle the most, while that of 1950–1989 reinforces the small water cycle the least. Diversified crop rotations should be incentivized to farmers, and increasing the areas of forest, brush, and permanent grassland should be prioritized to further reinforce the small water cycle. It is necessary to foster relationships and open communication between watershed managers, landowners, and scientists to improve the small water cycle and to pave the way for successful future hydrological modeling in the Czech Republic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10501 - Hydrology

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability — Open Access Journal

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

2071-1050

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

24

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000737439300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85121211211