Is the Hyporheic Zone Relevant beyond the Scientific Community?

Water

Okke Batelaan¹  Philipp Wolke¹  Tabea Broecker¹  Jennifer D. Drummond²  Juliane Hollender²  Jesus Gomez-Velez³  Jörg Lewandowski³  Birgit Maria Mueller³  Robert C. Grabowski³  Hanna Schulz³  Adrian Löchner Prats³  Marcus A. Horn³  Tanu Singh³  Andrea L. Popp³  Skuyler P. Herzog⁴  Stefan Krause⁵  Mario Schirmer⁵  Jaime Gaona Garcia⁶  Michael Radke⁶  Muhammad Raza⁷  Jonas L. Schaper⁸  Malte Posselt⁸  Ignacio Peralta-Maraver⁹  Cyrus Rutere⁹  Anna Jaeger^1,10  Margaret Shanafield^1,10  Claudia Coll^1,10  Anke Putschew^1,10  Anne Robertson^1,11  Joakim Riml^1,12  Adam S. Ward^1,13  Eddie Banks^1,13  Andrea Betterle^1,13  Karin Meinikmann^1,14  Liwen Wu^1,15  Anja Höhne^1,15  Jason Galloway^1,16  Anders Wörman^1,16  Chiara Magliozzi^1,16  Brian Babak Mojarrad^1,17  Reinhard Hinkelmann^1,17  Shai Arnon^1,18 

[1] Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia;Chair of Water Resources Management and Modeling of Hydrosystems, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany;Department Ecohydrology, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, 12587 Berlin, Germany;Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37205, USA;Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany;Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), Stockholm University, 11418 Stockholm, Sweden;Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Chair Water Quality Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany;Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, London SW15 4JD, UK;Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden;Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland;IWW Water Centre, 45476 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany;Institute for Hygiene and Environment, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 20539 Hamburg, Germany;;National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT), College of Science &Naturalea Conservació, SL, 08211 Castellar del Vallès, Spain;O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA;School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK;School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK;Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel;

关键词: hyporheic zone;    hyporheic exchange flow;    surface water–groundwater exchange;    ecosystem services;    nutrient turnover;    refuge;    hyporheos;    removal of trace organic compounds;    emerging pollutants;    self-purification capacity;   

DOI  :  10.3390/w11112230

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Rivers are important ecosystems under continuous anthropogenic stresses. The hyporheic zone is a ubiquitous, reactive interface between the main channel and its surrounding sediments along the river network. We elaborate on the main physical, biological, and biogeochemical drivers and processes within the hyporheic zone that have been studied by multiple scientific disciplines for almost half a century. These previous efforts have shown that the hyporheic zone is a modulator for most metabolic stream processes and serves as a refuge and habitat for a diverse range of aquatic organisms. It also exerts a major control on river water quality by increasing the contact time with reactive environments, which in turn results in retention and transformation of nutrients, trace organic compounds, fine suspended particles, and microplastics, among others. The paper showcases the critical importance of hyporheic zones, both from a scientific and an applied perspective, and their role in ecosystem services to answer the question of the manuscript title. It identifies major research gaps in our understanding of hyporheic processes. In conclusion, we highlight the potential of hyporheic restoration to efficiently manage and reactivate ecosystem functions and services in river corridors.

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