Groundwater and Water Use Efficiency of Mixed-Species Forests
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 196
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrology; ecohydrology; catchment modelling; vegetation-water-energy interactions; eddy covariance; atmospheric fluxes; energy-water balance; hydrology non-stationarity; carbon-water balance; catchment biophysical modelling; plant-soil-water interactions
Interests: plant ecology; groundwater-dependent ecosystems; geohydrology; phreatophytes; wetland ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For this Special Issue we are seeking excellent papers on the water use efficiency (WUE) of mixed-species forests. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the effect of access to groundwater on the WUE of trees and forests and how WUE changes with variation in depth to groundwater caused either by natural fluctuations in recharge or anthropogenically driven changes. How is the carbon assimilation–transpiration relationship affected and how does the WUE relationship to environmental drivers change as groundwater availability changes on a seasonal or interannual basis? Are there long-term trends in WUE linked to changes in groundwater availability due to global change processes? Further, how are these forests adapting? What are the trade-offs in productivity and water use made by natural systems to retain resilience against extreme climatic and other threats, such as fire and disease?
Water use efficiency by commercial single-species plantations has been widely studied, usually with the aim of maximising the growth per unit water used by the forest. The definition of “water use” varies between studies, from physiological, as transpiration, to hydrological, as total evaporation from a catchment or other landscape unit, and the growth measured against this ranges from carbon uptake at the leaf scale to total biomass accumulation at the forest or landscape scale. The aim this issue is to increase our understanding of the role of groundwater in regulating the connection between growth and water use in natural forests and thus promote effective forest management strategies to conserve the ecosystem services they provide.
Prof. Dr. Richard Silberstein
Prof. Dr. Ray Froend
Dr. Donald White
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water use efficiency
- groundwater
- soil water
- global change
- climate change
- carbon-water balance
- transpiration
- carbon assimilation
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