Forest-water interactions / Delphis F. Levia, editor ; Darryl E. Carlyle-Moses, Shin'ichi Iida, Beate Michalzik, Kazuki Nanko, Alexander Tischer, co-editors.
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 ce...
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Format: | Ebook |
Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
[2020]
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Series: | Ecological studies ;
v. 240. |
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Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
Summary: | 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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 628 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 3030260860 9783030260866 3030260852 9783030260859 |