Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
The 12th World Congress of the European Water Resources Association - EWRA2023: "Managing Water-Energy-Land-Food under Climatic, Environmental and Social Instability", Thessaloniki, Yunanistan, 27 Haziran - 01 Temmuz 2023, ss.1-2
Wetlands constitute rich biodiversity reserves
and hotspots associated with extensive ecosystem functions globally. Wetlands
in the Mediterranean transect of Turkey, which are greatly referred to
international significance and conservation concerns, are unfortunately under
intensifying threats because of the gradually (sometimes quite rapidly)
changing hydro-climatic conditions and mostly the emergence of droughts. This
fact requires the use of scientific approaches in these areas to guide
protective/restorative policy actions and to orient engineering solutions. Yet,
such efforts will certainly require solid records of river discharge data that
can sufficiently represent inlet hydrologic conditions to the wetlands of
interest, while it is observed that either no hydrographic station is available
or the data series lacks either the required quality or the length. Based on
this knowledge and understanding, the methodology that is partly exemplified in
the present study provides an analytical framework tailored towards the use of hydro-meteorological
drought indices in assessing wetland sustainability. The study on the use of
drought indices in a novel handling for the annual series of maximum drought
severities is an extension of the approach that was previously suggested by Onuşluel
Gül et al. (2022) and Kuzucu and Onuşluel Gül (2023). The results on targeted
assessments for detecting trends in significant drought characteristics are presented
over a series of spatially distributed wetland systems that distinctively represent
Mediterranean hydrologic conditions.