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Jian Hu, Da Lü, Feixiang Sun, Yihe Lü, Youjun Chen and Qingping Zhou
Soil moisture is a central theme in eco-hydrology. Topography, soil characteristics, and vegetation types are significant factors impacting soil moisture dynamics. However, water loss (evapotranspiration and leakage) and its factors of the self-organized...
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Toshiharu Kojima, Ryoma Shimono, Takahiro Ota, Hiroshi Hashimoto and Yasuhiro Hasegawa
The ecosystem services of forests, such as the water conservation function, are the combined results of diverse processes, and the modification of one part of a forest affects each ecosystem service separately via complex processes. It is necessary to de...
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Jun Chen, Fuchao Zheng, Dianpeng Li, Rixiu Zhou, Wenming Jv, Xin Leng, Lu Xia and Shuqing An
Small wetlands provide crucial ecosystem services but are facing widespread loss and degradation. At present, small wetland complexes provide an alternative avenue for conservation; we used a dataset to illustrate how zeta diversity can be assessed in a ...
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Anna Rita Bernadette Cammerino, Michela Ingaramo and Massimo Monteleone
The European Parliament has recently passed the ?Nature Recovery? law to restore degraded ecosystems and prevent natural disasters as part of its ?Biodiversity Strategy 2030? and ?Green Deal?. In this respect, wetlands can provide a wide range of ecosyst...
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Tasi-Jung Jiang, Pankaj Kumar, Herlin Chien and Osamu Saito
Despite being a limited resource, pollution, poor management, and other drivers like climate change make available water unsuitable and insufficient for human consumption and ecosystem maintenance. Therefore, a transdisciplinary approach is needed for ma...
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Ya-Sin Yang, Hsin-Fu Yeh, Chia-Chi Huang and Hsin-Yu Chen
Owing to active orogenic movement and the monsoon climate, rainfall-induced landslide disasters often occur in Taiwan. Hence, hillslope hydrology and stability have received considerable research attention. However, it remains difficult to accurately est...
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Amartya K. Saha, Japhet Kashaigili, Fredrick Mashingia, Halima Kiwango, Mercy Asha Mohamed, Michael Kimaro, Mathias Msafiri Igulu, Patroba Matiku, Rosemary Masikini, Rashid Tamatamah, Ismail Omary, Tumaini Magesa, Pendo Hyera, Roman Evarist and Maria C. Donoso
Land use changes and mounting water demands reduce freshwater inflows into estuaries, impairing estuarine ecosystems and accelerating coastal seawater intrusion. However, determining minimum river inflows for management guidelines is hampered by a lack o...
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Karina Sinaí Medina Camarena, Thea Wübbelmann and Kristian Förster
Hydrological modeling is commonly used in urban areas for drainage design and to estimate pluvial flood hazards in order to mitigate flood risks and damages. In general, modelers choose well-known and proven models, which are tailored to represent the ru...
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Dijana Oskoru?, Sanja Kapelj, Sa?a Zavrtnik and Karlo Leskovar
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000/60/EC established a framework for community action in the field of water policy. This Directive requires the monitoring of surface watercourses? quality, which is undoubtedly influenced by the sediment composition...
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Gerald Norbert Souza da Silva and Márcia Maria Guedes Alcoforado de Moraes
The development of adequate modeling at the basin level to establish public policies has an important role in managing water resources. Hydro-economic models can measure the economic effects of structural and non-structural measures, land and water manag...
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