Water-Soil-Vegetation Nexus and Climate Change
- 1st Edition - January 10, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Xixi Wang
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 1 0 6 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 5 6 2 - 5
Water-Soil-Vegetation Nexus and Climate Change presents an overview of research needs and approaches regarding water-soil-vegetation nexus and climate change. The book includes ch… Read more
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Request a sales quoteWater-Soil-Vegetation Nexus and Climate Change presents an overview of research needs and approaches regarding water-soil-vegetation nexus and climate change. The book includes chapters discussing water budget and factors that affect hydrologic processes such as precipitation, runoff, infiltration, evapotranspiration, soil water, and groundwater, in addition to a focus on consumptive (e.g., domestic and irrigation) and non-consumptive (e.g., eco-environmental) water uses, and water shortage. Throughout the book, chapters specifically deal with the fundamental principles and also case studies, applications, and decision support tools that can be usable for developing practical management measures in sustaining our eco-environment and society by maintaining an optimal water-soil-vegetation equilibrium.
Written with water resources students and professors in mind, this book will provide the reader with further knowledge on the water-soil-vegetation nexus and its connection to climate change.
- Includes both principles and applications, providing the reader with options for both application types as needed
- Emphasizes the nexuses rather than individual processes, allowing the reader to understand the whole picture
- Presents case studies and decision support tools that can be used for developing practical management measures in changing climate
Professors, students and research scientists in the field of Water Resources and Environmental Science. Soil Scientists, Climate Scientists, Environmental, Civil engineers, Plant scientists, Ecologists
- Cover image
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Precipitation spatiotemporal variations: overview
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Methods for detecting temporal variations
- 1.3 Methods for detecting spatial patterns
- 1.4 Wet regions: case study in Virginia, USA
- 1.5 Dry regions: case study in Inner Mongolia of China
- 1.6 Discussion
- 1.7 Conclusion
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 2 Simulation of evapotranspiration and its components for the mobile dune and meadow wetland using an improved dual-source model in semiarid regions
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Material and methods
- 2.3 Results
- 2.4 Discussion
- 2.5 Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 3 The scale effect of double-ring infiltration and soil infiltration zoning in a semiarid steppe
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Materials and methods
- 3.3 Results and discussion
- 3.4 Conclusions
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 4 Water footprint in milk agrifood chain in the subhumid and semiarid central region of Argentina
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Materials and methods
- 4.3 Results
- 4.4 Discussion
- 4.5 Conclusion
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 5 Quality-induced water scarcity and countermeasures
- 5.1 Consequences
- 5.2 Characteristics
- 5.3 Causing factors
- 5.4 Countermeasures
- 5.5 Ecological restoration
- 5.6 Restoration cases
- 5.7 Smart basin management system
- 5.8 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 6 Soil water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity
- 6.1 Background
- 6.2 Soil water retention functions
- 6.3 Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity
- 6.4 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 7 Dynamics of dry soil layer and evaporation zone during wetting-drying cycles
- 7.1 Rationale and conceptualization
- 7.2 Measured VFR effect
- 7.3 Modeled VFR effect
- 7.4 Discussion
- 7.5 Conclusion
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 8 Simulating topsoil drying-wetting dynamics as interrelated with infiltration and evapotranspiration
- 8.1 Governing equation
- 8.2 Solution with Brooks-Corey and Brooks-Corey-Burdine models
- 8.3 Solution with van Genuchten and van Genuchten-Mualem models
- 8.4 Discussion of the two solutions
- 8.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 9 Measuring and modeling wind-water erosion from a semiarid Eurasian Steppe grassland
- 9.1 Background
- 9.2 Portable wind tunnel
- 9.3 IAFP model
- 9.4 Results
- 9.5 Discussion
- 9.6 Conclusion
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 10 Spatiotemporal variations of net primary production using remote sensing and field data
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Study area
- 10.3 Data and preprocessing
- 10.4 Analysis methods
- 10.5 Results
- 10.6 Discussion
- 10.7 Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 11 Mechanical effects of plant roots on concentrated flow erosion rates
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Erosion-reducing potential of roots: mechanisms and controlling factors
- 11.3 Quantifying the erosion-reducing potential of root systems: methodology
- 11.4 The erosion-reducing potential of root systems: metaanalysis results
- 11.5 Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 12 Impact of plant roots on the resistance of soils to erosion by water: a review
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Morphological and functional aspects of plant roots
- 12.3 Influence of root systems on properties controlling soil erodibility
- 12.4 Influence of root systems on properties controlling soil erodibility
- 12.5 Interrelationship between soil erosion and vegetation
- 12.6 Plant root effects on soil erosion by water
- 12.7 Plant root effects in soil erosion models
- 12.8 Discussion and conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 13 Characterizing vegetation community compositions of a semiarid ecosystem as affected by soil properties
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Materials and methods
- 13.3 Results
- 13.4 Discussion
- 13.5 Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 14 Assessing degradation risk of a semiarid steppe grassland subject to climate-adaptative grazing practice
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Materials and methods
- 14.3 Results
- 14.4 Discussion
- 14.5 Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 15 Separating effects of climate change versus human activity on water resources
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Currently used methods
- 15.3 Assumptions and issues
- 15.4 Proposed framework
- 15.5 Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- Declaration
- References
- Chapter 16 Overall conclusions and future research
- 16.1 Water budget and climate variability (Chapters 1 to 5)
- 16.2 Physical mechanisms of topsoil (Chapters 6 to 9)
- 16.3 Pivotal roles of vegetation (Chapters 10 to 14)
- 16.4 Effects of climate change versus human activity (Chapter 15)
- 16.5 Recommendations for future research
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 10, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 472
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128201060
- eBook ISBN: 9780323915625
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Xixi Wang
Xixi Wang is an Associate Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Xixi’s current areas of research focus on effects of climate change versus human activity on water resources, water-soil-vegetation nexus and equilibrium in changing climate, and watershed hydrology and stormwater management. Xixi has served at the Principal Investigator on several research grants focused on water-soil-vegetation nexus and spatiotemporal variations of precipitation as influenced by nonstationary climate. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed research papers, books, and book chapters, including several on precipitation trend and frequency analyses. He earned his bachelor’s (1989) and master’s (1993) degrees in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering from Tsinghua University, and holds a doctoral (2001) degree in Agricultural Engineering from Iowa State University. Xixi has been a registered professional engineer in North Dakota (#5145) since 2003 and Texas (#99798) between 2007 and 2011.
Affiliations and expertise
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