Water and Carbon Cycles and Their Coupling in Forest
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest hydrology; forest ecology; plant water uptake; isotopic hydrology; climate change
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Interests: soil carbon cycle; biogeochemistry; microbial community; climate change
Interests: isotopic hydrology; ecohydrology; landscape patterns and ecological processes; stable isotope in ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water and carbon cycles play important roles in material and energy exchange in forest ecosystems. Under climate change conditions, shifts in environmental factors will inevitably trigger changes in water and carbon cycles, thereby affecting the carbon source/sink and evapotranspiration processes of forests. A comprehensive evaluation of the carbon and water cycles in forests and their systems is, therefore, of the utmost importance for understanding their water and carbon budgets. Today, many challenges still remain in this field. For example, in forests, plant and soil carbon cycles and their drivers need to be further explored, especially in terms of evaluating their responses to climate change. Moreover, given climate change and the large heterogeneity of vegetation and soil in different regions, how to strengthen research on carbon/water cycle at the site level and expand it to regional and even global scales is a topic that needs further exploration. In addition, the carbon–water coupling process is also an urgent issue that must be solved. Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to collect recent findings related to water and carbon cycles and their couplings in forest systems. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The assessment of vegetation and soil carbon storage;
- Carbon cycle and its response to climate change;
- The precipitation interception capacity of vegetation and soil;
- Plant water use strategies and efficiency;
- Evapotranspiration from forest ecosystems;
- Carbon–water coupling mechanisms.
Dr. Beibei Zhang
Dr. Futing Liu
Dr. Jian Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forest ecosystem
- carbon cycle
- water cycle
- carbon–water coupling
- climate change
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