Sentences with phrase «hydrologic alteration»

Some of the major human activities responsible for the destruction of wetlands in India include hydrologic alteration, agricultural activities, pollution, legal - policy failures, direct deforestation in wetlands, inundation by dammed reservoirs, degradation of water quality, global climate change effects, ground - water depletion and introduced species — extinction of native biota.

Hence, this study evaluates the ability of a standard hydrologic model set - up: Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrologic model for two headwater sub-basins in the Fraser River (Salmon and Willow), British Columbia, Canada, with climate inputs derived from observations and statistically downscaled global climate models (GCMs); to simulate six general water resource indicators (WRIs) and 32 ecologically relevant indicators of hydrologic alterations (IHA).

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These models will have the capability to predict the ancient hydrologic history of a sedimentary basin together with the related processes of organic maturation, hydrocarbon migration, rock alteration, and mineralization.