Handbook

Ecohydrology elucidates the interactive processes on the land surface that involves plants, water, soil and the atmosphere; the influences of these processes on water resources, biomass production, carbon sequestration, and heat balances; and their responses to climate and environmental changes. In this topic, we discuss water storage and flow in soils, water transfer in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, coupled water and carbon processes from leaves to ecosystems, interactions between terrestrial vegetation and climate, and groundwater. The knowledge and advanced skills gained from the topic will be useful for understanding and managing various land and water issues, such as dry-land salinity, groundwater recharge, vegetation drought responses, bush fires, plantation water allocation, cropland irrigation, carbon sequestration, urban green infrastructures, and mining impacts and rehabilitation.