HYDROLOGY AND HYDROBIOLOGY

Trees, networks, and hydrology

[1] This paper reviews theoretical and observational material on form and function of natural networks appeared in somewhat disparate contexts from physics to biology, whose study is related to hydrologic research. Moving from the exact result that drainage network configurations minimizing total energy dissipation are stationary solutions of the general equation describing landscape evolution,...

Groundwater and Contaminant Hydrology

Contaminant hydrology is the study of processes that affect both ground and surface water pollution. It draws on the principles of hydrology and chemistry. Contaminant hydrology and water quality research seeks to understand the role of soil properties and hydrologic processes on ground and surface water pollution and develop strategies to mitigate their impacts. Research is done at all scales ...

Land Ecosystems and Hydrology

Hydrology and Erosion

Climate induced temporal variation, spatial patterns of vegetation and microenvironments, plant growth forms, soils and geology, and topographic factors influence hydrologicprocesses in rangelandenvironments. In Part I of this study,a gradient analy sis of 13 environmental variables identified temporal and spatial gradients in sagebrush coppice and interspacesoil surface cover types. Spatial co...

Hydrology and the Environment

The theme for the papers in the issue is “Hydrology and the Environment”. There is a mix of review papers and research papers. Climate change and water are very important subjects in these times. Hydrology is the science of water, and the environment has water as one of the three principal earthly components, the other two being the air and the earth. Hence, hydrology and the environment would ...