Soil Water Conservation: Dynamics and Impact
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2018) | Viewed by 88114
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water and sediment connectivity; catchment processes; nature-based solutions; forest fire; sustainable land management
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Interests: soil hydrology
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Interests: soil hydraulic conductivity; soil water retention; soil physical quality; soil management; soil conditioners
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue we would like to invite papers addressing the state of the art of Soil and Water Conservation research. Practical, as well as process-based research, are welcome in this Special Issue. We would like to focus both on green and blue water: With the purpose of showing novel measuring and modeling approaches, including interactions between soil physical and hydraulic properties, soil water conservation and crop yield. In addition we would like to invite studies focussing on how we can develop adaptive strategies of soil water conservation to counteract the impacts of climate change.
Specific topics we would like to address in this special issue are:
- Agricultural management: Effect of soil use and management on soil water conservation (no-tillage, minimum tillage, crop residue management, soil mulching) and how to achieve greater water use efficiency
- Forest management: Effects of afforestation and deforestation on water yields, with specific focus on semi-arid climates and ecohydrology-based forest management as adaptive measure to global change
- Scaling issues: Controls of the vegetation on soil water balance across the spatial scales: From pedon to basin scale.
- Process understanding: Hydrological processes governing water dynamics in humid or semi-arid environments: monitoring and modelling.
- Modelling applications for predicting climate or land use change impacts on water availability.
- New technologies: Innovative methods for monitoring water dynamics and investigate soil properties governing hydrological processes.
Prof. Dr. Saskia Keesstra
Dr. Simone Di Prima
Dr. Mirko Castellini
Dr. Mario Pirastru
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Soil and water conservation
- climate change adaptation
- blue and green water
- agricultural amendaments
- forest management
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