Rewilding and the water cycle
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Abstract Rewilding is a radical approach to landscape conservation that has the potential help mitigate flood risk and low flow stresses, but this remains largely unexplored. Here, we illustrate nature of hydrological changes rewilding can be expected deliver through reducing or ceasing land management, natural vegetation regeneration, species (re)introductions, river networks. This includes major above‐ below‐ground structure (and hence interception, evapotranspiration, infiltration, hydraulic roughness), soil properties, biophysical channels. The novel, complex, uncertain, longer‐term rewilding‐driven change generates some key challenges, currently relatively constrained in geographical extent. Significant water cycle benefit people are possible there an urgent need for improved understanding prediction trajectories their effects, generation knowledge tools facilitate stakeholder engagement, extension geography opportunities. article categorized under: Science Water > Hydrological Processes Extremes Life Conservation, Management, Awareness
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عنوان ژورنال: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2049-1948']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1686