Forest-Water Interactions

628 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The United Nations has declared 2018-2028 as the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development. This is a timely designation. In an increasingly thirsty world, the subject of forest-water interactions is of critical importance to the achievement of sustainability goals. The central underlying tenet of this book is that the hydrologic community can conduct better science and make a more meaningful impact to the world’s water crisis if scientists are: (1) better equipped to utilize new methods and harness big data from either or both high-frequency sensors and long-term research watersheds; and (2) aware of new developments in our process-based understanding of the hydrological cycle in both natural and urban settings. Accordingly, this forward-looking book delves into forest-water interactions from multiple methodological, statistical, and process-based perspectives (with some chapters featuring data sets and open-source R code), concluding with a chapter on future forest hydrology under global change. Thus, this book describes the opportunities of convergence in high-frequency sensing, big data, and open source software to catalyze more comprehensive understanding of forest-water interactions. The book will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in an array of disciplines, including hydrology, forestry, ecology, botany, and environmental engineering.

• Reihe: Ecological Studies
• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Geographie Physische Geographie und Topographie
• ISBN: 9783030260859
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.02.2020
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Delphis F. Levia, Darryl E. Carlyle-Moses, Shin'ichi Iida, Beate Michalzik, Kazuki Nanko, Alexander Tischer