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Morphology of Drained Upland Depressions on the Des Moines Lobe of Iowa

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An algorithm developed to derive the morphology of depressional landscape features was applied to the Iowa portion of the Des Moines Lobe using high-resolution hydrologically corrected digital elevation models. In total, 173,171 topographically intact, drained upland depressions were identified, and their individual morphologies determined. The frequency distributions of maximum area of inundation, maximum depth, and maximum storage volume of depressions were described by a power-law function. Maximum storage volume was strongly related to maximum inundation area through a power-law model, the parameters of which differ from those reported for other areas of the North American Prairie Pothole Region. The spatial distributions, densities, and bulk morphological attributes of upland depressions within the DML-IA tend to be coincident with the region's distinctive glaciated sub-regions.

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  • 02 September 2020

    In the article by McDeid, S.M., Green, D.I.S. & Crumpton, W.G. entitled Morphology of Drained Upland Depressions on the Des Moines Lobe of Iowa [Wetlands 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-018-1108-4], the following corrections have been added.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a United States Environmental Protection Agency Wetland Program Development Grant. The authors thank Dr. Brian Gelder for the hydrologically corrected LiDAR data. We also thank Jordan Miller, Blake Sunkle, and Alex Andera for their assistance with the data filtering process. Great appreciation is also given to Dr. Greg Stenback for his thorough review of this paper and insightful suggestions. Thank you, also, to the anonymous reviewers who provided insightful suggestions for improving the original manuscript.

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    Samuel M. McDeid, David I. S. Green & William G. Crumpton

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McDeid, S.M., Green, D.I.S. & Crumpton, W.G. Morphology of Drained Upland Depressions on the Des Moines Lobe of Iowa. Wetlands 39, 587–600 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-018-1108-4

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