wetlands in the lower reaches of songhua river (lrsr), northeast china, are rich in biodiversityand natural resources, which provide crucial staging and wintering habitats for various endangered species.however, in the past five decades, the size of this wetland area has decreased, and its quality has deteriorated because of increased natural and human activities. wetland restoration is critica...

Recently, the frequent seasonal drought in Southwest China has brought considerable concerns and continuous heated arguments on the "water pump" viewpoint (i.e., the water demand from Hevea spp. and Eucalyptus spp. can be treated as a water pump) once again. However, such viewpoint just focused on water consumption from vegetation transpiration and its ecoenvironment impacts, which had not cons...

Stormwater source control regulations are rapidly diffusing in many countries. Most of these are provisions that limit runoff rates at the parcel-scale, although some references indicate some negative side effects, at the catchment-scale, for this form of regulation. In this paper, we compare, at that scale, the effects of several runoff rate and runoff volume provisions, using a hydrological m...

Lake Texcoco in Mexico is a remarkable place for observing how human and natural relationships evolve through time landscape. Since the opening of watershed draining lake, there have been various attempts to exploit area, although few succeeded. This study highlights importance historical analysis identifying socio-natural processes that historically influenced lake use, degradation, management...

In recent years, forest fires frequency and intensity has increased, causing a new awareness about their impact not only on vegetation, but also on hydrological regime. Changes in vegetation influence the processes of interception and evapotranspiration, seriously affecting the hydrological cycle. Forest fires can also affect hydrological processes indirectly, altering the hydraulic properties ...