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Climate Influence Vs. Local Drivers in Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions in Eight Ponds of Doñana National Park (Southern Spain)

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This paper aims to determine how both climate and local drivers, such as groundwater withdrawals influence surface water - groundwater interactions in Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs). We studied the hydroperiod in eight of the most representative ponds of Doñana National Park (southern Spain) during a 21-year period. We analyzed the average flooded phase of each pond as well as the average depth of the piezometric level in nearby piezometers. In addition, we used the average precipitation as a proxy of the water inputs onto the ponds. The average flooded surface was taken by a previous analysis of satellite images and the depth to the piezometric level was field measured at a monthly time step. We found out that the average precipitation was slightly lower during the second decade (675 mm/y vs. 552 mm/y). Nonetheless, 5/8 of the ponds showed a much higher shrinking of the flooded surface that could not be explained only by a reduction in the precipitation events. Local drivers were found to be decisive in the degradation of 3/8 of the ponds: those closer to a pumping facility and located at a higher altitude.

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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez (mrodrod@upo.es), upon reasonable request.

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Acknowledgements

This study has been funded by the CLIGRO Project (MICINN, CGL2016-77473-C3-1-R) of the Spanish National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation as well as by the Guadalquivir River Basin Authority by means of the project Hydrological monitoring and modeling of the pond-aquifer interaction in wetlands of the Guadalquivir River Basin (Doñana sand dune ponds). Doñana Biological Reserve staff helped in fieldwork and partially funded this investigation. We are thankful to the anonymous reviewer and the AE of Wetlands for their insight. Their comments enhanced a great deal the overall quality of this paper.

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This work has been funded by the Spanish National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation (MICINN; CLIGRO Project CGL2016–77473-C3–1-R) as well as by the Guadalquivir River Basin Authority by means of the project Hydrological monitoring and modeling of the pond-aquifer interaction in wetlands of the Guadalquivir River Basin (Doñana sand dune ponds).

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  1. Department of Natural, Physical and Chemical Systems, Pablo de Olavide University, Utrera Rd., km1, 41013, Seville, Spain

    Miguel Rodríguez-Rodríguez

  2. Spanish Geological Survey, 23th Ríos Rosas St., 28003, Madrid, Spain

    Héctor Aguilera, Carolina Guardiola-Albert & Ana Fernández-Ayuso

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MR was involved in planning and supervising the work.

CGA was involved in supervising the work and gave insight about the numerical processing of the data.

AFA processed the experimental data and designed some of the figs.

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Rodríguez-Rodríguez, M., Aguilera, H., Guardiola-Albert, C. et al. Climate Influence Vs. Local Drivers in Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions in Eight Ponds of Doñana National Park (Southern Spain). Wetlands 41, 25 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-021-01425-6

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