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Emerging Issues in Rangeland Ecohydrology by Bradford P. Wilcox; Thomas L. Thurow is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Emerging Issues in Rangeland Ecohydrology about?
Rangelands are of enormous importance, making up close to half the terrestrial global landscape. Defined as areas capable of producing forage but unable to support rain-fed agriculture, rangelands are amazingly diverse but are generally water-limited for at least part of the year. Another unifying feature of many rangelands-unfortunately-is that they have undergone (and continue to undergo) rapid transformation as a result of factors such as overgrazing, deforestation, woody-plant encroachment, and invasion by nonnative plant species. Each of these factors has altered rangeland water cycles and related biogeochemical processes in ways that appear to be significant but are not well understood. In addition, the demand for scarce water in rangeland environments has increased as human populations and their associated water needs-agricultural, residential, and municipal-have grown, increasing the conflict between human and ecosystem maintenance needs. Given the challenges posed by these transformations, the theme of this set of papers-Emerging Issues in Rangeland Ecohydrology-is especially appropriate. Ecohydrology focuses on the hydrology-ecology interface, i.e. the interrelated dynami
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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Environmental Science.
- Author
- Bradford P. Wilcox; Thomas L. Thurow
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0885-6087)
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)