Effects of land use and land cover changes on water quality in the uMngeni river catchment, South Africa

JN Namugize, G Jewitt, M Graham - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth …, 2018 - Elsevier
Land use and land cover change are major drivers of water quality deterioration in
watercourses and impoundments. However, understanding of the spatial and temporal …

The effect of DEM raster resolution on first order, second order and compound terrain derivatives

S Kienzle - Transactions in GIS, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
It is well known that the grid cell size of a raster digital elevation model has significant effects
on derived terrain variables such as slope, aspect, plan and profile curvature or the wetness …

Hydrological impacts of land use change in three diverse South African catchments

ML Warburton, RE Schulze, GPW Jewitt - Journal of Hydrology, 2012 - Elsevier
In order to meet society's needs for water, food, fuel and fibre, the earth's natural land cover
and land use have been significantly changed. These changes have impacted on the …

Modelling hydrological responses to land use and climate change: a southern African perspective

RE Schulze - Ambio, 2000 - JSTOR
Nine hydrological issues relating to land use and climate change are identified from a
southern Africa perspective, each illustrated by an example based on field observations or …

Projected impacts of urbanisation on hydrological resource flows: A case study within the uMngeni Catchment, South Africa

S Schütte, RE Schulze - Journal of environmental management, 2017 - Elsevier
Significant land use changes from natural/agricultural to urban land uses have been
proposed within the Mpushini/Mkhondeni sub-catchments of the uMngeni Catchment in …

Transcending scales of space and time in impact studies of climate and climate change on agrohydrological responses

R Schulze - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2000 - Elsevier
The scale “jump” in hydrology and agriculture from the small scale at which individual
processes such as infiltration, soil water redistribution, evapotranspiration, soil loss or crop …

Riverine quality at the Anthropocene: Propositions for global space and time analysis, illustrated by the Seine River

M Meybeck - Aquatic Sciences, 2002 - Springer
The control of riverine quality (water, particulates) by human-related pressures is now a
major feature of the Anthropocene era. A set of general typologies and approaches to …

Simulating the hydrological impacts of climate change in the upper North Saskatchewan River basin, Alberta, Canada

SW Kienzle, MW Nemeth, JM Byrne, RJ MacDonald - Journal of hydrology, 2012 - Elsevier
The ACRU agro-hydrological modeling system provided the framework, containing code to
simulate all major hydrological processes, including actual evapotranspiration estimates, to …

Confirmation of ACRU model results for applications in land use and climate change studies

ML Warburton, RE Schulze… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2010 - hess.copernicus.org
The hydrological responses of a catchment are sensitive to, and strongly coupled to, land
use and climate, and changes thereof. The hydrological responses to the impacts of …

Simulating the hydrological response to predicted climate change on a watershed in southern Alberta, Canada

KA Forbes, SW Kienzle, CA Coburn, JM Byrne… - Climatic Change, 2011 - Springer
The current body of research in western North America indicates that water resources in
southern Alberta are vulnerable to climate change impacts. The objective of this research …