[1] The emerging interdisciplinary approaches of ecohydrology and hydropedology are sensitive to variation in soil-surface energy inputs, which are primarily modified by topography and woody plant canopies. Yet a synthesis of the interactive effects of these two modification types is lacking. We systematically estimated near-ground surface solar radiation inputs as modified by key attributes of...

Keynote Session 1 Title: The ecohydrology of river vegetation Organizer: Dr. Matthew O’Hare (CEH Edinburgh, Bush estate, Penicuik, EH26 0QB, UK Synopsis: This session will focus on the developing field of riverine plant ecohydrology. Riverine plants including both aquatic macrophytes and riparian vegetation respond to their physical environment but they also influence it, effecting both hydrolo...

Water in the XXI century has become the primary factor for sustainable development, eradication of poverty and reversal of ecosystem degradation. Increasing water demand for agriculture and urbanisation, combined with pollution, eutrophication and amplification of the stochastic character of climatic processes, increases water limitations for ecosystems and societies. The transdisciplinary scie...

The mountainous catchments in the Australian Alps are one of highest water-yielding regions within a generally dry continent. Peatlands critical water-regulating components these catchments, and their response to changing climate will impact all downstream environments water availability for human uses. Mountain peatland ecohydrology, particular role evapotranspiration, remains incompletely und...

Ecohydrology is the science that studies the mutual interaction between the hydrological cycle and ecosystems. Such an interaction is especially intense in watercontrolled ecosystems, where water may be a limiting factor, not only because of its scarcity, but also because of its intermittent and unpredictable appearance. Soil moisture is the key variable modulating the complex dynamics of the c...