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Ecohydrology: Insights into Water Dynamics and Ecosystem Functioning
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Ecohydrology: Insights into Water Dynamics and Ecosystem Functioning

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecohydrology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2024) | Viewed by 1635

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Lan Ma

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Guest Editor
School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: forest hydrology; soil erosion; water dynamics; hydrological model; field monitoring
Prof. Dr. Jianhua Ping

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Guest Editor Assistant
Geothermal and Ecological Geology Research Center, School of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Interests: surface water and groundwater interaction; groundwater recharge; isotopic hydrology; ecohydrogeology; geothermal genesis
Dr. Xuemei Mei

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Guest Editor Assistant
Geothermal and Ecological Geology Research Center, School of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Interests: forest hydrology; carbon migration; preferential flow; soil hydrology model; vegetation restoration in the Loess Plateau

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Ecosystems play an important role in the water cycle. Ecosystem processes have undergone large changes driven by human activities (vegetation restoration, deforestation, grazing, and agriculture) and natural disturbances (wildfires, insect infestations, geological hazards, etc.). These changes associated with climate change have affected the characteristics of hydrological processes such as soil infiltration, evapotranspiration, runoff, and groundwater recharge. Hydrological consequences of ecosystem and climate changes are never simple. The variations in the magnitude of consequences depend on the scale, type, and severity of ecosystem disturbances, climate, and watershed properties. Works in hydrology processes affected by underlying surface changes and climate variation are facing greater challenges, which can provide theoretical support for water resources management and vegetation restoration.

This Special Issue of Water is intended to bring together some of the latest research on ecohydrology for insights into water dynamics and ecosystem functioning. We are seeking submissions on a wide range of topics, including ecohydrological components affected by climate change or human activities, hydrology models, surface water–groundwater interactions and groundwater protection, solute transport in hydrological processes, ecosystem functioning, and related areas.

Prof. Dr. Lan Ma
Guest Editor

Prof. Dr. Jianhua Ping
Dr. Xuemei Mei
Guest Editor Assistants

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Water is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • hydrological processes
  • ecosystem functioning
  • climate change
  • vegetation restoration
  • human activities

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A Distributed Catchment—Scale Evaluation of the Potential of Soil and Water Conservation Interventions to Reduce Storm Flow and Soil Loss
by Tilashwork C. Alemie, Wouter Buytaert, Seifu A. Tilahun and Tammo S. Steenhuis
Water 2024, 16(9), 1225; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16091225 - 25 Apr 2024
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Finding effective ecosystem services (ESS) management practices to counteract land degradation and poverty is becoming increasingly urgent in the Ethiopian highlands, where livelihood security is strongly dependent on local ESS, particularly those provided by water and soil. In this paper, we test the [...] Read more.
Finding effective ecosystem services (ESS) management practices to counteract land degradation and poverty is becoming increasingly urgent in the Ethiopian highlands, where livelihood security is strongly dependent on local ESS, particularly those provided by water and soil. In this paper, we test the effects of widely implemented soil and water conservation (SWC) interventions on storm flow and sediment concentration in the Debre Mawi watershed (representative of watersheds in the upper Blue Nile basin and Ethiopian highlands). The SWC interventions were tested with a Parameter Efficient Distributed (PED) model. The PED model simulates saturation excess runoff from degraded and saturated valley bottoms, and base and interflow from hillsides. The model was calibrated with observed runoff and sediment data in a 95-ha subcatchment. We found that the PED model simulated the discharge and soil loss well by decreasing the proportion of degraded lands due to installing SWC practices. The results show that four years after the implementation of SWC practices, the infiltration of rainwater was improved in 53% of the degraded lands. Thus, installing SWC practices on hillsides where infiltration is limited is most beneficial and will result in greater water availability during the dry phase, especially in locations where volcanic dikes block the lateral flow. Full article
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Predicting the Presence of Groundwater-Influenced Ecosystems in the Northeastern United States with Ensembled Models
by Shawn D. Snyder, Cynthia S. Loftin and Andrew S. Reeve
Water 2023, 15(23), 4035; https://doi.org/10.3390/w15234035 - 21 Nov 2023
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Globally, groundwater-influenced ecosystems (GIEs) are increasingly vulnerable to groundwater extraction and land use practices. Groundwater supports these ecosystems by providing inflow, which can maintain water levels, water temperature, and the chemistry necessary to sustain the biodiversity that they support. Many aquatic systems receive [...] Read more.
Globally, groundwater-influenced ecosystems (GIEs) are increasingly vulnerable to groundwater extraction and land use practices. Groundwater supports these ecosystems by providing inflow, which can maintain water levels, water temperature, and the chemistry necessary to sustain the biodiversity that they support. Many aquatic systems receive groundwater as a portion of baseflow, and in some systems, the connection with groundwater is significant and important to the system’s integrity and persistence. There is a lack of information about where these systems are found and their relationships with environmental conditions in the surrounding landscape. Additionally, groundwater management for human use often does not address maintaining the ecological functions of GIEs. We used correlative distribution modeling methods (GLM, GAM, MaxEnt, Random Forest) to predict landscape-scale habitat suitability for GIEs in two ecologically distinct ecoregions (EPA Level II ecoregions: Atlantic Highlands and Mixed Wood Plains) in the northeastern United States. We evaluated and combined the predictions to create ensemble models for each ecoregion. The accuracy of the ensemble models was 75% in the Atlantic Highlands and 86% in the Mixed Wood Plains. In the Mixed Wood Plains, hydric soil, surface materials, and soil permeability were the best predictors of GIE presence, whereas hydric soil, topographic wetness index, and elevation were the best predictors of GIE presence in the Atlantic Highlands. Approximately 1% of the total land area in each ecoregion was predicted to be suitable for GIEs, highlighting that there likely is a small proportion of the landscape occupied by these systems. Full article
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