Soil–Plant–Water Dynamics on a Field Scale
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 14589
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The biophysical interactions between soil, plant communities, and the atmosphere at the ground surface is a subject of the highest relevance for the future of our society. Water is one of the main vectors controlling this system. While water is essential for crops and plants development, its availability, both in terms of quality and quantity, is becoming more and more limited due to a conflict of interests between different uses under the perspective of increased risk of severe droughts. The role of spatial and or temporal variability of soil, plant communities, and the atmosphere in their (highly nonlinear) interaction and feedback is scale-dependent, and the attention given to each of these three components is, to some extent, discipline-dependent. Relevant work and reviews have been published in the topic lately. However, there are still some knowledge gaps that we pursue to overcome with this Special Issue.
This Special Issue encourages the submission of cross-disciplinary works aiming at studying any of the compartments of the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum or the system as whole. Advances obtained from this Special Issue will help to improve ecosystems functioning while strengthening soil and water conservation. The scale of interest for this Special Issue is the field or micro catchment scales, where operational conditions and relative relevance of the compartments may scale-specific. Research on the following topics (but not limited to them) is promoted: (i) optimization of soil–plant–water conservation and functioning; (ii) development of new or more up-to-date data collection strategies and model based now- and forecasting of the system; (iii) coupled monitoring of the soil–vegetation–atmosphere system; (iv) development and transfer of eco-hydropedological knowledge to system´s monitoring; (v) advances in the quantification and modeling of fluxes between compartments of the system; (vi) scaling (down/upscaling) of components; (vii) evaluation of strategies conducted to optimize soil and plants functioning; and (viii) effects of using alternative water sources on soil–water–plant relationship.
Dr. Gonzalo Martínez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soil–water–plant continuum
- monitoring networks
- spatial and temporal variability
- scaling
- water resources