Plant-Water Interactions under a Changing Environment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecohydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 1933
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecohydrological process; numerical modeling; evapotranspiration partitioning; water isotopic tracer; biometeorology
Interests: evapotranspiration hydrology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The complex plant-water interaction, from leaves to the biosphere, with its feedback to the climate system, is one of the most uncertain parts of the water cycle. It involves interactions of soil, plants, land cover, and land use, with hydrological processes, such as evapotranspiration, infiltration, and runoff. There are still many unsolved problems in the observation and simulation of these processes (e.g., evapotranspiration partitioning; effects of soil structure on hydrological processes; identifying runoff channels). Understanding these processes can greatly improve our knowledge of and ability to adapt to changes in water cycles in changing environments, especially in arid and alpine regions.
In this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of studies that investigate both facts and mechanisms related to plant-water processes, from leaves to the biosphere’s effects on hydrological processes, including soil-water dynamics, evapotranspiration, and runoff.
The topics covered by this Special Issue will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Plant-water interactions in arid and alpine catchments;
- Advances in hydrological and ecohydrological monitoring techniques and modelling;
- Isotop tracers in plant-water interaction studies;
- Evapotranspiration partitioning;
- Soil structure effects on hydrological processes;
- Identifying flowpath of runoff;
- Impacts of human activities on the hydrological cycle.
Dr. Pei Wang
Dr. Zhongwang Wei
Dr. Bo Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ecohydrological process
- water and carbon flux
- soil-water dynamics
- high-cold ecosystem
- earth-critical zone
- watershed hydrology
