Special issue of Hess entitled: Climate-soil and vegetation interactions in ecological-hydrological processes

  

Editors: Vito Iacobellis , Salvatore Manfreda, Murugesu Sivapalan

 

The special issue will focus on different aspects of the theme Climate-soil and vegetation interactions in ecological-hydrological processes and for this reason it will be divided in four parts. The first regards the open questions on the available methods for water balance modeling, the mutual interactions of climate, soil and vegetation patterns, and their link with base hydrological processes. The second part deals with new perspectives, models and ideas, bringing the feedbacks of previous sections in the field coupled hydrologic and biogeochemical modeling. The last two parts are devoted to projects and analyses dealing with specific environments strongly interacting with water availability and conditions (drylands and wetlands).

Index

1 Ecohydrology in Mediterranean areas: a numerical model to describe growing seasons out of phase with precipitations
D. Pumo, F. Viola, and L. V. Noto
2 The olive tree: a paradigm for drought tolerance in Mediterranean climates
A. Sofo, S. Manfreda, B. Dichio, M. Fiorentino, and C. Xiloyannis
3 Generation of soil moisture patterns at the catchment scale by EOF interpolation
M. A. Perry and J. D. Niemann
4 A conceptual dynamic vegetation-soil model for arid and semiarid zones
D. I. Quevedo and F. Francés
5 Modelling groundwater-dependent vegetation patterns using ensemble learning
J. Peters, B. De Baets, R. Samson, and N. E. C. Verhoest
6 A model for hydraulic redistribution incorporating coupled soil-root moisture transport
G. G. Amenu and P. Kumar
7 Vegetation composition and soil microbial community structural changes along a wetland hydrological gradient
W. K. Balasooriya, K. Denef, J. Peters, N. E. C. Verhoest, and P. Boeckx
8 Analysis of soil and vegetation patterns in semi-arid Mediterranean landscapes by way of a conceptual water balance model
I. Portoghese, V. Iacobellis, and M. Sivapalan
9 Rainfall intermittency and vegetation feedbacks in drylands
M. Baudena and A. Provenzale
10 An optimality-based model of the coupled soil moisture and root dynamics
S. J. Schymanski, M. Sivapalan, M. L. Roderick, J. Beringer, and L. B. Hutley
11 Vegetation dynamics and soil water balance in a water-limited Mediterranean ecosystem on Sardinia, Italy
 N. Montaldo, J. D. Albertson, and M. Mancini
12 A Stochastic Approach for the Description of the Water Balance Dynamics in a River Basin
 S. Manfreda and M. Fiorentino
13 Estimation of Vegetation Cover Resilience from Satellite Time Series
 T. Simoniello, M. Lanfredi, M. Liberti, R. Coppola and M. Macchiato
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Ecohydrologic Controls on Vegetation Density and Evapotranspiration Partitioning Across the Climatic Gradients of The Central United States
 J.P. Kochendorfer and J.A. Ramírez

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Modeling the Monthly Mean Soil-Water Balance  with a Statistical-Dynamical Ecohydrology Model as Coupled to a Two-Component Canopy Model  
J.P. Kochendorfer and J.A. Ramírez

16 Effects of Runoff Thresholds on Flood Frequency Distribution
 A. Gioia, V. Iacobellis, S. Manfreda, M. Fiorentino
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