Water-Soil-Vegetation Nexus and Climate Change

Xixi Wang

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780128201060
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323915625
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

Water-Soil-Vegetation Nexus and Climate Change presents a broad overview of the research needs and approaches regarding water-soil-vegetation nexus and climate change. It includes chapters discussing water budget and factors that affect hydrologic processes such as precipitation, runoff, infiltration, evapotranspiration, soil water, and groundwater, in addition to a focus on consumptive (e.g., domestic and irrigation) and non-consumptive (e.g., eco-environmental) water uses, and water shortage. Throughout Water-Soil-Vegetation Nexus and Climate Change chapters specifically deal with the fundamental principles and also case studies, applications, and decision support tools, that can be usable for developing practical management measures in sustaining our eco-environment and society by maintaining an optimal water-soil-vegetation equilibrium. Written with water resources students and professors in mind, this book will provide the reader with further knowledge on the water-soil-vegetation nexus and its connection to climate change. - Includes both principles and applications, providing the reader with options for both application types as needed - Emphasizes the nexuses rather than individual processes, allowing the reader to understand the whole picture - Presents case studies and decision support tools that can be used for developing practical management measures in changing climate

Table of contents

• Water-Soil-Vegetation Nexus and Climate Change
• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Precipitation spatiotemporal variations: overview
• Chapter 2 Simulation of evapotranspiration and its components for the mobile dune and meadow wetland using an improved dual-source model in semiarid regions
• Chapter 3 The scale effect of double-ring infiltration and soil infiltration zoning in a semiarid steppe
• Chapter 4 Water footprint in milk agrifood chain in the subhumid and semiarid central region of Argentina
• Chapter 5 Quality-induced water scarcity and countermeasures
• Chapter 6 Soil water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity
• Chapter 7 Dynamics of dry soil layer and evaporation zone during wetting-drying cycles
• Chapter 8 Simulating topsoil drying-wetting dynamics as interrelated with infiltration and evapotranspiration
• Chapter 9 Measuring and modeling wind-water erosion from a semiarid Eurasian Steppe grassland
• Chapter 10 Spatiotemporal variations of net primary production using remote sensing and field data
• Chapter 11 Mechanical effects of plant roots on concentrated flow erosion rates
• Chapter 12 Impact of plant roots on the resistance of soils to erosion by water: a review
• Chapter 13 Characterizing vegetation community compositions of a semiarid ecosystem as affected by soil properties
• Chapter 14 Assessing degradation risk of a semiarid steppe grassland subject to climate-adaptative grazing practice
• Chapter 15 Separating effects of climate change versus human activity on water resources
• Chapter 16 Overall conclusions and future research
• Index