Hydrological Functions and Hydrological Modeling in Forested Watershed

Dear Colleagues,

Forests play a critical role in the global hydrological cycle and functions. Trees absorb water from the soil and release it into the atmosphere as vapor through evapotranspiration, which can drive temperatures and rainfall across the globe. Healthy trees contain a structure of canopy, stem, leaves, and root systems in rainfall interception against watershed erosion, enhancing subsurface infiltration and thus improving water and soil conservation. The complete forest structure significantly increases the runoff roughness and resistance, including skin, shape, and form drag, making slower surface water, a more extended concentration time, and attenuated flood magnitude.

Forests are dynamic ecosystems that provide crucial and diverse services, including offering food, fuel, and fiber, cleaning the air, filtering water supplies, preventing floods, controlling erosion, sinking carbon dioxide, and sustaining biodiversity and genetic resources. Urbanization would directly vary forest ecosystems by removing or fragmenting forest coverage and indirectly change forest ecosystems by modifying hydrological functions, altering nutrient cycling, introducing nonnative species, and changing atmospheric conditions.

Excellent and accurate data supply a solid foundation for forest management, while modeling and simulations inform decision making. This Special Issue attempts to attract the latest and most novel ideas and techniques to understand the hydrological functions of natural, artificial, and impactful forests for improving the performance of hydrological modeling and vegetation hydrodynamics simulation in forested watersheds.

Prof. Dr. Shang-Shu Shih
Prof. Dr. Shaohua Marko Hsu
Guest Editors

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