New Perspectives in Ecohydrological Studies: Understanding the Water Cycle in Forest Ecosystems under a Changing Climate
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2024) | Viewed by 310
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecohydrology; forest water use; species-specific hydraulic strategies; ecohydrological modeling; land-atmosphere exchange
Interests: ecohydrology; plants and forests water use and storage dynamics; species-specific hydraulic strategies; ecohydrological modeling and simulations; land-atmosphere exchange; designed of ANNs applied to ecohydrology problems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forest ecohydrology is an inherently cross-disciplinary field combining hydrology; ecology; meteorology; biology; and geology to better understand, quantify, and simulate the complex ways forests influence the water, carbon, and energy cycles. Forests impact the dynamics of these systems in numerous ways, making it challenging to study biophysical feedback and controls at multiple spatiotemporal scales. As our climate continues to change and shifting patterns of temperature and precipitation result in droughts, fires, floods, and other disturbances, it is critical to understand how diverse landscapes and landcover will respond. In this context, this Special Issue welcomes multiscale studies of forest ecohydrology with an emphasis on novel methods and models to explore vegetation feedback between subsurface land and atmosphere. This includes, but is not limited to, studies of the influence of forest composition, structure, and function on ecosystem fluxes; mechanistic and modeling approaches to understand hydrodynamics in the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum; and research focusing on forest responses to short- or long-term disturbances. We welcome original research and reviews focused on understanding, quantifying, and simulating forest ecohydrology at various spatiotemporal scales. Moreover, we encourage research conducted in natural or managed conditions, as well as studies that employ field measurements, remote sensing, modeling techniques, laboratory or mesocosm experiments, data mining, or theory development.
- Forest ecohydrology
- Ecohydrological models
- Forest–water interaction
- Ecohydrological disturbance responses
Dr. Ashley Matheny
Dr. Ana Maria Restrepo Acevedo
Guest Editors
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