Eco-Hydrologic Modelling for Climate Change Adaptation
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecohydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022)
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Around the world, forests assume a vital importance in the regulation of the water cycle and in the allocation of the water balance. Knowledge of forests’ ecohydrological response is essential to support management strategies, especially in regions that already register water scarcity.
Shifts in climatological patterns are expected to impact water cycle components and, consequently, hydrological responses, soil erosion, thermopluviometric regimes, and plant physiology. Historical and future changes on climate produce relative shifts in climate variables, as well as on CO2 concentrations, which ultimately impact the water balance, streamflow, and surface water quality. These changes alter the amount of precipitation and soil water storage, the evapotranspiration rates, and crop productivity and land management operations, through modifications in socio-economic conditions.
Ecohydrological models are valuable tools for simulating hydrological processes at catchment scale, as well as for predicting the effects of climate changes on water resources, thus making them useful in the decision support process.
For this Water Special Issue, studies that focus on ecoehydrological modelling for historical and future climate conditions and the links with adaptive managemen strategies are welcome. Modelling approaches that focus forest-dominated cathmnets are especially welcomed.
The topics may include:
- Forest ecohydrological modelling;
- Forest hydrological responses;
- SWAT model;
- Gauged and ungauded catchments;
- Positive and negative impacts of climate change;
- Climate change adaptation;
- Adaptive management strategies.
Dr. João Rocha
Guest Editor
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Keywords
• Climate scenarios
• Ecohydrological modelling
• Hydrological responses
• SWAT model
• Gauged catchments
• Climate change
• Adaptive management strategies
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