Ecohydrological effects of management on subalpine grasslands: From local to catchment scale

The ethics of socio-ecohydrological catchment management: towards hydrosolidarity

This paper attempts to clarify key biophysical issues and the problems involved in the ethics of socio-ecohydrological catchment management. The issue in managing complex systems is to live with unavoidable change while securing the capacity of the ecohydrological system of the catchment to sustain vital ecological goods and services, aquatic as well as terrestrial, on which humanity depends ul...

Nutrient Cycling, Modelling and Management from Field to Catchment Scale

The changes in land use caused by antropogenic interventions, has increased the global pool of nutrients (Nitrogen and Phosphorus) in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. This report analyzes the behavior of the main nutrient biogeochemical cycles and the consequences of its alterations. It is remarkable the enhancement of some inputs and outputs to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and the inc...

6170 Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands

An integrated modelling framework of catchment-scale ecohydrological processes: 2. The role of water subsidy by overland flow on vegetation dynamics in a semi-arid catchment

Guo-Yue Niu,* Peter A. Troch, Claudio Paniconi, Russell L. Scott, Matej Durcik, Xubin Zeng, Travis Huxman, David Goodrich and Jon Pelletier 1 Biosphere 2 Earth Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA 2 Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA 3 Centre Eau Terre Environment, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-ETE), Université d...

Modeling shrub encroachment in subalpine grasslands under different environmental and management scenarios.

Woody plants are spreading in many alpine and subalpine ecosystems and are expected to continue increasing in response to land abandonment and global warming. This encroachment threatens species diversity, and considerable efforts have been deployed to control it. In this study, we combined a lattice model and field data to investigate the efficiency of different management strategies in contro...