Scientific Results

This catalogue is obtained by conducting a systematic literature review of scientific studies and reviews related to monitoring, forecasting, and simulating the inland water cycle. The analysis maps scientific expertise across research groups and classifies findings by the type of inland water studied, application focus, and geographical scope. A gap analysis will identify missing research areas and assess their relevance to policymaking.

ID â–Č Type Year Authors Title Venue/Journal DOI Research type Water System Technical Focus Abstract Link with Projects Link with Tools Related policies ID
publications-711 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2012 Francesco de Bello , Sandra Lavorel , SĂ©bastien Lavergne , CĂ©cile H. Albert , Isabelle Boulangeat , Florent Mazel , Wilfried Thuiller Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07438.x Simulation & Modeling Uncategorized Understanding the influence of the environment on the functional structure of ecological communities is essential to predict the response of biodiversity to global change drivers. Ecological theory suggests that multiple environmental factors shape local species assemblages by progressively filtering species from the regional species pool to local communities. These successive filters should influence the various components of community functional structure in different ways. In this paper, we tested the relative influence of multiple environmental filters on various metrics of plant functional trait structure (i.e. ‘community weighted mean trait’ and components of functional trait diversity, i.e. functional richness, evenness and divergence) in 82 vegetation plots in the Guisane Valley, French Alps. For the 211 sampled species we measured traits known to capture key aspects of ecological strategies amongst vascular plant species, i.e. leaf traits, plant height and seed mass (LHS). A comprehensive information theory framework, together with null model based resampling techniques, was used to test the various environmental effects. Particular community components of functional structure responded differently to various environmental gradients, especially concerning the spatial scale at which the environmental factors seem to operate. Environmental factors acting at a large spatial scale (e.g. temperature) were found to predominantly shape community weighted mean trait values, while fine‐scale factors (topography and soil characteristics) mostly influenced functional diversity and the distribution of trait values among the dominant species. Our results emphasize the hierarchical nature of ecological forces shaping local species assemblage: large‐scale environmental filters having a primary effect, i.e. selecting the pool of species adapted to a site, and then filters at finer scales determining species abundances and local species coexistence. This suggests that different components of functional community structure will respond differently to environmental change, so that predicting plant community responses will require a hierarchical multi‐facet approach. 272284
publications-712 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2013 J. Roy , C. H. Albert , S. Ibanez , P. Saccone , L. Zinger , P. Choler , J.-C. Clément , S. Lavergne , R. A. Geremia Microbes on the Cliff: Alpine Cushion Plants Structure Bacterial and Fungal Communities 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00064 Simulation & Modeling Uncategorized No abstract available 272284
publications-713 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2014 Massimo Rolle , Peter K. Kitanidis Effects of compound-specific dilution on transient transport and solute breakthrough: A pore-scale analysis 10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.06.012 Control Systems Uncategorized No abstract available 273049
publications-714 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2013 Massimo Rolle , Gabriele Chiogna , David L. Hochstetler , Peter K. Kitanidis On the importance of diffusion and compound-specific mixing for groundwater transport: An investigation from pore to field scale 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2013.07.006 Simulation & Modeling Uncategorized No abstract available 273049
publications-715 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2013 Massimo Rolle , Muhammad Muniruzzaman , Christina M. Haberer , Peter Grathwohl Coulombic effects in advection-dominated transport of electrolytes in porous media: Multicomponent ionic dispersion 10.1016/j.gca.2013.06.031 IoT & Sensors Uncategorized No abstract available 273049
publications-716 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2012 Massimo Rolle , David Hochstetler , Gabriele Chiogna , Peter K. Kitanidis , Peter Grathwohl Experimental Investigation and Pore-Scale Modeling Interpretation of Compound-Specific Transverse Dispersion in Porous Media 10.1007/s11242-012-9953-8 Simulation & Modeling Uncategorized No abstract available 273049
publications-717 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2013 David L. Hochstetler , Massimo Rolle , Gabriele Chiogna , Christina M. Haberer , Peter Grathwohl , Peter K. Kitanidis Effects of compound-specific transverse mixing on steady-state reactive plumes: Insights from pore-scale simulations and Darcy-scale experiments 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.12.007 AI & Machine Learning Uncategorized No abstract available 273049
publications-718 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2012 Gabriele Chiogna , David L. Hochstetler , Alberto Bellin , Peter K. Kitanidis , Massimo Rolle Mixing, entropy and reactive solute transport 10.1029/2012gl053295 IoT & Sensors Uncategorized Mixing processes significantly affect reactive solute transport in fluids. For example, contaminant degradation in environmental aquatic systems can be limited either by the availability of one or more reactants, brought into contact by physical mixing, or by the kinetics of the (bio)chemical transformations. Appropriate metrics are needed to accurately quantify the interplay between mixing and reactive processes. The exponential of the Shannon entropy of the concentration probability distribution has been proposed and applied to quantify the dilution of conservative solutes either in a given volume (dilution index) or in a given water flux (flux‐related dilution index). In this work we derive the transport equation for the entropy of a reactive solute. Adopting a flux‐related framework, we show that the degree of uniformity of the solute mass flux distribution for a reactive species and its rate of change are informative measures of physical and (bio)chemical processes and their complex interaction. 273049
publications-719 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2014 Muhammad Muniruzzaman , Christina M. Haberer , Peter Grathwohl , Massimo Rolle Multicomponent ionic dispersion during transport of electrolytes in heterogeneous porous media: Experiments and model-based interpretation 10.1016/j.gca.2014.06.020 IoT & Sensors Uncategorized No abstract available 273049
publications-720 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2014 Biao Jin , Massimo Rolle , Ting Li , Stefan B. Haderlein Diffusive Fractionation of BTEX and Chlorinated Ethenes in Aqueous Solution: Quantification of Spatial Isotope Gradients 10.1021/es4046956 IoT & Sensors Uncategorized No abstract available 273049