Experimental and Modeling Analysis of Ecosystem Service Value in Natural and Man-Made Vegetated Water Bodies
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecohydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2025 | Viewed by 43
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Interests: ecological engineering; civil engineering; environmental engineering; field experi-ments; hydraulics; fluid dynamics; numerical modeling; turbulence; water science
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The qualitative and quantitative status of ecosystems in vegetated areas is crucial for the proper management of vegetated water networks developed worldwide. Both experimental and modeling approaches in environmental science are extremely useful for ecohydraulic analyses of the ecosystems emerging within vegetated water areas and watersheds in both natural and constructed territories. It is very important to highlight that a deep scientific and technical understanding of the specific study goals and available technology for obtaining the most accurate predictions of the status of vegetated water bodies plays a key role in ecohydraulic research. In the present Special Issue, we invite authors to submit articles that focus on a wide overview of the analysis of ecohydrological and ecohydraulic phenomena under both experimental and modeling conditions (both numerical and statistical simulations), such as river engineering, flume- and field-scale ecohydrodynamics, the effects of land cover strategies on agricultural soil losses, and the analysis of watershed hydrological processes and water quality. Topics of interest include suitable experimental and modeling methodologies for the field-scale monitoring of both natural and urban water bodies and watersheds, exploring their huge potential in the management of ecosystem services related to vegetated water systems in both urban and natural areas.
Dr. Giuseppe Francesco Cesare Lama
Dr. Mariano Crimaldi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ecohydraulics
- ecosystem services
- field experiments
- modeling
- vegetated areas
- water quality
- water resources management
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