Climate, Relief, Soil and Vegetation Influences on the Hydrological Cycle in Small Catchments
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 353
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Interests: fluvial geomorphology; flash flood; gully and rill erosion
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Dear Colleagues,
In many geographic regions, we are observing very rapid changes in the water cycle in catchment areas, altering the operating conditions of natural systems. Global climate change is commonly cited unanimously as a major factor in these changes. On the other hand, numerous reports have pointed to spatial management transformation as a result of increasing urbanization. However, at the local scale, major changes in land use directly related to economic prosperity, and accompanied by the modernization of agriculture, have been recorded. Consequently, the processes of deforestation and field fallowing significantly modify water circulation conditions in small river catchments. The impact of individual factors on contemporary changes in the hydrological cycle in small catchments thus needs to be examined.
The selection of small—and reasonably homogeneous—catchments makes it possible to determine the impact of selected variables on individual components of small water cycles. The existing literature still lacks works documenting changes and variability in precipitation and their impact on water runoff in longer and continuous measurement series. Detailed studies of the long-term hydrological effects of changes in relief, soil cover or vegetation are also desirable. In the forthcoming special volume, we would like to present original results of studies documenting contemporary changes in the hydrological cycle components in the small catchment areas.
Dr. Grzegorz Janicki
Dr. Jolanta Świȩchowicz
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Keywords
- hydrological cycle
- precipitation changes
- soil infiltration variability
- rainfall and snowmelt runoff
- overland and channel flow
- water and sediment runoff
- cultivation and crop pattern changes
- small catchments
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