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Hydrological connectivity: a review and emerging strategies for integrating measurement, modeling, and management

Dipankar Dwivedi, Ronald E. Poeppl, Ellen Wohl

Frontiers in Water · 2025

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This review synthesizes methods for measuring, modeling, and managing hydrologic connectivity, offering pathways to improve practices and address environmental challenges (e.g., climate change) and sustainability. As a key driver of water movement and nutrient cycling, hydrologic connectivity influences flood mitigation, water quality regulation, and biodiversity conservation. However, traditional field-based methods (e.g., dye tracing), indirect measurements (e.g., runoff analysis), and remote sensing techniques (e.g., InSAR) often struggle to capture the complexity of catchment-scale interactions. Similarly, modeling approaches—including process-based and percolation theory-based models, graph theory, and entropy-based metrics—face limitations in fully representing these interconnected p

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3389/frwa.2025.1496199
Catalogue ID
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