Heat budget and statistical analysis of the relationship between stream temperature and riparian forest in the Toikanbetsu River basin, northern Japan |
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| Authors: | Sachiho Sugimoto Futoshi Nakamura Akiko Ito |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Forest Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 060 Sapporo, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Riparian forests greatly influence aquatic ecosystems by providing shade cover, which controls water temperature and limits
primary production. We examined the relationship between forest cover and summer stream temperature in northernmost Japan.
Heat budget and statistical analyses were employed and the results were compared. Heat budget analysis revealed that the water
temperature would decrease almost linearly from 29°C to 25°C with an increase in forested reaches along a 3.2 km stretch of
the river. Multiple regression analysis by the stepwise method chose only open channel length as a variable to explain the
variation in maximum stream temperature. A sharp increase in stream temperature was noted when riparian forest cover was removed
in short lengths, of up to 1.0km; this increasing trend gradually flattened as the length of open stretch increased. Thus,
even small openings in the riparian canopy resulted in drastic rises in summer stream temperature. The maximum summer temperatures
estimated by the two methods were coincided, and can therefore be accurately estimated by regression analysis. Retrospective
analysis based on the regression equation showed that the maximum summer temperature in 1947 was 6°C lower than at present,
and that a sharp increase occurred from 1947 to 1960, a period of rapid expansion of agricultural land development in the
watershed. |
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| Keywords: | heat budget regression analysis riparian forest stream ecology stream temperature |
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