Sjoerd van der Zee (1955-2022) passed away at the age of 67 on 24 June 2022. He started his research career investigating reactive transport in heterogeneous soil systems. worked academic positions for 35 years, since 1998 as a Professor Soil and Groundwater Pollution, later Ecohydrology Department Environmental Sciences Wageningen University, The Netherlands. has been Associate Editor Vadose Z...

As a consequence of the rapid development modern society during 20th and 21st centuries, significant number pollutants have been dispersed into environment [...]

Widespread, rapid, drought-, and infestation-triggered tree mortality is emerging as a phenomenon affecting forests globally and may be linked to increasing temperatures and drought frequency and severity. The ecohydrological consequences of forest dieoff have been little studied and remain highly uncertain. To explore this knowledge gap, we apply the extensive literature on the ecohydrological...

[1] An accurate description of plant ecology requires an understanding of the interplay between precipitation, infiltration, and evapotranspiration. A simple model for soil moisture dynamics, which does not resolve spatial variations in saturation, facilitates analytical expressions of soil and plant behavior as functions of climate, soil, and vegetation characteristics. Proper application of s...

[1] Areas with a relatively shallow water table are environments where the groundwater plays a key role on the ecosystem function, and important interactions exist between hydrology and ecosystem processes. We propose here an analytical model to study the interactions between rainfall, water table, and vegetation in groundwater-dependent ecosystems. The water table dynamics are studied as a ran...

vegetation cover is the first barrier for the raindrops resulting to the interception and infiltration loss. interception as one of the main components of ecohydrology equation plays a major role in the water balance of rangelands. however, few studies have been done on the interception of rangeland plants in iran. this study was carried out to find the interception rate in astragalus parrowian...