RAPID: Influence of the Brood X Cicada Emergence on Soil Water Infiltration

RAPID：巢 X 蝉的出现对土壤水分入渗的影响

• 批准号: 2133502
• 负责人: Darren Ficklin
• 金额: $ 1.93万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2133502&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Influence; Brood; Cicada; Emergence

In the Spring and Summer of 2021, billions of Brood X cicadas will emerge from the soil, leaving burrows and emergence holes that will potentially affect soil water infiltration rates (the movement of water into soil) and thus surface water and groundwater volumes. The current understanding of how burrowing affects soil water infiltration rates comes from individual locations with localized burrowing, which can limit our understanding of how these biological processes affect large-scale or regional hydrology. By taking water infiltration measurements at many locations in central and southern Indiana with and without cicada emergence holes, this work will advance the understanding of how widespread burrowing can disrupt soil water hydrology. Understanding how this semi-rare cicada emergence (last one was 17 years ago) affects regional hydrology has implications for many environmental science topics such as vegetation water use, river volumes, groundwater table heights, and changes in water quality. The work will also provide valuable research experience for two undergraduate and two graduate students. Results will be disseminated in manuscripts, conference presentations, news releases, and public data portals. In this project, infiltration rates will be measured at multiple locations with and without cicada emergence holes, to improve understanding of how large-scale soil disturbances affect regional hydrology. Using portable infiltrometers in varying landscapes and soils throughout central and southern Indiana, they will measure the influence of cicada emergence holes at two scales: the macropore scale (e.g., one cicada emergence hole) and multi-macropore scale (e.g., many cicada emergence holes). Results generated from this work will improve understanding of how soil disturbance affects infiltration rates, which has important implications for hydrological processes (e.g., surface runoff, groundwater recharge), water quality (e.g., agricultural leeching), and watershed management.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在2021年春季和夏季，数十亿只Brood X蝉将从土壤中出现，留下洞穴和出现孔，这将可能影响土壤水分渗透率（水进入土壤的运动），从而影响地表水和地下水的量。目前对挖洞如何影响土壤水分渗透率的理解来自于局部挖洞的个别位置，这可能会限制我们对这些生物过程如何影响大规模或区域水文的理解。通过在印第安纳州中部和南部的许多地方进行有和没有渗水孔的水渗透测量，这项工作将促进对广泛的挖洞如何破坏土壤水水文的理解。了解这种半罕见的出现（最后一次是17年前）如何影响区域水文学对许多环境科学主题有影响，如植被用水，河流水量，地下水位高度和水质变化。 这项工作还将为两名本科生和两名研究生提供宝贵的研究经验。结果将以手稿、会议演示、新闻稿和公共数据门户的形式传播。在本项目中，将在多个地点测量渗透率，有和没有出水孔，以提高对大规模土壤扰动如何影响区域水文的理解。在整个印第安纳州中部和南部的不同景观和土壤中使用便携式渗透仪，他们将在两个尺度上测量出露孔的影响：大孔隙尺度（例如，一个突出孔）和多个大孔尺度（例如，多处出洞）。 这项工作产生的结果将提高对土壤扰动如何影响渗透率的理解，这对水文过程具有重要意义（例如，地表径流，地下水补给），水质（例如，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Influence of the 2021 Brood X cicada emergence on near surface hydrology in forested and urban landscapes

2021 年蝉 X 出现对森林和城市景观近地表水文的影响

• DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14822
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Hydrological Processes
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Ficklin, Darren L.;Kelleher, Christa;Bergan, Ellen V.;Myers, Daniel T.;Adelsperger, Seth;Hardman, Erin
• 通讯作者: Hardman, Erin