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Hydrology of small watershed 2005
Šír, Miloslav ; Lichner, Ľ. ; Tesař, Miroslav ; Holko, L.
The book includes the full text of 48 scientific articles. These articles were prepared as the contributions for the Conference with international participation “Hydrology of a small basin 2011” that was held from September 14th to September 15th 2005 in Prague. The Conference was organized by the Institute of Hydrodynamics ASCR, v.v.i. in Prague; Institute of Hydrology SAS in Bratislava; the Czech Water Management Society in Prague and Czech Committee for Hydrology. The book was published by the Institute of Hydrodynamics ASCR, v.v.i. in Prague in 2005.
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Plant transpiration and self-organization of hydrologic cycle
Šír, Miloslav ; Lichner, Ľ. ; Tesař, Miroslav
We quantified the influence of plant transpiration on the entropy production associated with the degradation of solar energy on the Earth’s surface covered by plants. Two surfaces were studied: (1) biotic surface – plant transpiration taken as equal to the potential one, (2) abiotic surface – plant transpiration taken as if equal to zero. Two sources of entropy were taken into account – the entropy production associated with the conversion of solar radiation into (1) the sensible heat, and (2) latent heat. Surface processes in hydrologic cycle were examined in the experimental watershed Liz located in the Bohemian Forest (Czech Republic). We found that in the growing season 1992 the entropy production in humid hydrologic cycle (the Earth’s surface is biotic) was considerably higher than in the arid one (in 39 % of days the Earth’s surface behaved as biotic, in 61 % of days behaved as abiotic). Considering that the biotic effect on the Earth’s functioning can be assessed using the entropy production, we can assume that the hypothesis that biota – represented as a biotic surface – regulates Earth’s environment is proved in the watershed scale.
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Climate change and plant transpiration
Šír, Miloslav ; Tesař, Miroslav ; Lichner, Ľ. ; Syrovátka, O.
The article shows how the plant transpiration cools the boundary level of the atmosphere. In a summer day, when the heat input is 5 to 6 kWh/m2 per day, in the mountainous and submontane areas of the Czech Republic (600 to 1400 m a.s.l.) the plant transpiration decreases: (1) maximum temperature of plant cover from 47 to 25 degrees C, (2) maximum temperature of boundary level of the atmos-phere from 29 to 21 degrees C, (3) maximum temperature of the soil in the depth of 15 cm from 15 to 8 degrees C. The cooling caused by plant transpiration substantially af-fects the energy balance of the land surface. Insufficient transpiration caused an increment of thermal energy of about 23
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Short rotation coppices and water management of landscape
Weger, J. ; Šír, Miloslav ; Syrovátka, O.
Short rotation coppices (SRCs, energy forest) became an accepted method to produce biomass for energy. The positive environmental effects of using biomass as a bio-fuel (e.g. reducing GHG, air pollution) were scientifically proved and these effects are now being used as the main argument in the discussion on whether the establishment of large plantations of SRC should be supported and subsidised. Much less is known about the other non-productive effects (functions) of an SRC on the cultural landscape and agro-ecosystems, which may have also positive effect on quality of the environment.
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