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The ecosystem services (ES) are strongly related to the human well-being, and their mapping and assessment is among the main challenges. The regulating ecosystem services are not consumed directly by the society or the beneficiaries, but they offer important benefit. Flood regulation is such type of service which can mitigate or prevent the risk of the most frequent nature disaster in Europe. The paper presents an approach for mapping of flood regulating based on hydrological modeling and GIS tool. The tool is designed as ArcGIS script, connected with the ArcSWAT database. Three parameters derived from the hydrologic moldering results for each Hydrologic Response Unit are used as indicators to define the flood regulation capacity. The tool extracts the necessary data from the ArcSWAT results by user selected day, month and year and transforms them into qualitative estimations. The results are presented in form of maps of flood regulation ecosystem service in the case study area of Ogosta river basin.
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Nikolov, P., Nedkov, S. (2020). Flood Regulating Ecosystem Services—Mapping and Assessment Tool Based on ArcSWAT Output Data. In: Nedkov, S., et al. Smart Geography. Key Challenges in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28191-5_29
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