Ecohydrology
Dynamics of Life and Water in the Critical Zone

Rigorous yet accessible textbook on ecohydrology for advanced students, and a reference for researchers, professionals, and engineers.

Amilcare Porporato (Author), Jun Yin (Author)

9781108840545, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 February 2022

396 pages
26 x 20.7 x 20.4 cm, 1.07 kg

'This book is an excellent resource for graduate students in the developing, highly interdisciplinary field of Ecohydrology. It covers the whole range from the theoretical background and main concepts to describe the dynamics within soils, ecosystems, and the atmosphere, as well as how these approaches are implemented in simple models and applied to actual problems. This material is presented with great rigor and clarity, with supporting exercises to reflect on the described concepts.' Axel Kleidon, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Ecohydrology is a fast-growing branch of science at the interface of ecology and geophysics, studying the interaction between soil, water, vegetation, microbiome, atmosphere, climate, and human society. This textbook gathers the fundamentals of hydrology, ecology, environmental engineering, agronomy, and atmospheric science to provide a rigorous yet accessible description of the tools necessary for the mathematical modelling of water, energy, carbon, and nutrient transport within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. By focusing on the dynamics at multiple time scales, from the diurnal scale in the soil-plant-atmospheric system, to long-term stochastic dynamics of water availability responsible for ecological patterns and environmental fluctuations, it explains the impact of hydroclimatic variability on vegetation and soil microbial systems through biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems under different socioeconomical pressures. It is aimed at advanced students, researchers and professionals in hydrology, ecology, Earth science, environmental engineering, environmental science, agronomy, and atmospheric science.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Physics Background for Ecohydrology
3. The Soil
4. The Plant
5. The Atmosphere
6. Stochastic Tools for Ecohydrology
7. Stochastic Soil Moisture Dynamics
8. From Plant Water Stress to Ecosystem Structure
9. Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles
10. Ecohydrology of Agroecosystems
Index.

Subject Areas: Applied ecology [RNC], Hydrology & the hydrosphere [RBK], Soil science, sedimentology [RBGB]