Laurie Boithias

TL;DR: The study shows that water scarcity is commonly a local issue (sub-basin to region), but that all demands are met at the largest considered spatial scale (basin), indicating that serious problems of water scarcity might occur in the near future even at the basin scale.

TL;DR: The OZCAR-RI project as discussed by the authors is a network of instrumented sites, bringing together 21 pre-existing research observatories monitoring different compartments of the zone situated between “the rock and the sky,” the Earth's skin or critical zone (CZ), over the long term.

TL;DR: Surface runoff was identified as the preferred pathway for pesticide transfer, related to the good correlation between suspended sediment exportation and pesticide, in both soluble and sorbed phases, and SWAT was shown to be a promising tool for assessing large catchment river network pesticide contamination in the event of floods.

TL;DR: In this article, the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was used to evaluate the contribution of different compartments in the basin to surface water and the dams' impact on water and sediment storage and its flux to the sea in order to develop reservoir management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify different sources of uncertainty when performing monetary valuation of ecosystem services, in order to provide a series of guidelines to reduce them, and find that the highest uncertainty was caused by the number of services considered, as well as by the amount of benefits considered for each service, and the uncertainty of the parameters included in the valuation metrics.