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  • Montane Meadows as Indicators of Hydrologic Change in the CRMW
  • Chapin, David; City of Seattle, Seattle Public Utilities
  • 2024-12-20
  • Chapin, D. 2024. Montane Meadows as Indicators of Hydrologic Change in the CRMW ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-27).

  • Detecting effects of climate change is typically done using physical measurements such as spring snow water equivalent or stream flow, but these metrics do not address ecosystem effects of climate change. A potential surrogate for reduced summer streamflow and soil moisture in the Cedar River Municipal Watershed (CRMW) are wet meadows that are fed by melting snow and shallow groundwater in the headwaters of several major streams. Saturated soils through most, if not all, of the growing season in these montane meadows support a rich assemblage of mostly herbaceous wetland plant species and exclude upland species. Species composition and abundance in wet meadows would likely change if reductions in snowpack and a longer summer dry season resulted in drier meadow soils. Wet meadows are essentially intermediate storage sites for water flowing through the watershed and are predicted to respond biologically in detectible ways should their hydrology change. Such changes could occur relatively quickly (3-10 years), as short-lived plant tissues (one to two years typically) allows for rapid plant community response to changes in resource levels

  • N: 47.49192463      S: 47.24097306      E: -121.3631524      W: -122.0334104
  • cos-spu.2.1  (Uploaded 2024-12-20)  
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