Water and Associated Surface Land Processes across Changing Landscapes

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change and human activities in the Anthropocene have significantly altered terrestrial hydrological cycling and water-associated mass transfer routines, leading to a wide range of environmental and ecosystem changes. Understanding how natural and anthropogenic forces have been operating on water and associated surface land processes across hotspot changing landscapes, as well as their potential environmental and ecosystem implications, are critical in expanding our current knoelwdge and informing sustainable management practices.

The objective of this Special Issue is to provide the reader with the recent advances in understanding water and associated surface land processes across changing landscapes, using a wide variety of observation techniques. Research papers related to, but are not limited to, hydrological cycle in complex geographical context (e.g., the Karst area, mountain area), its responses to various driving forces and implications for ecosystem restoration practices, as well as water-related mass transport dynamics are expected.

Hydrological deviations have considerably exerted off-site consequences on fluvial geomorphological, environmental, and ecological processes, thus determining channel connectivity, geomorphological evolution, freshwater quality, and aquatic ecosystem health. Contributions dealing with the fluvial responses to changes in the extent and intensity of terrestrial mass dynamics will be also preferred for publication.

Prof. Dr. Mingguo Ma
Prof. Dr. Qiang Tang
Prof. Dr. Xuguang Tang
Guest Editors

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