www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America R ecosystems are some of the most diverse on Earth and provide important services (Palmer and Richardson 2009; Strayer and Dudgeon 2010). Understanding how they function is critical to sustainable management but challenging given their complex spatial and temporal structure and multi-scale processes. Riverine systems comprise hydrol...

*Correspondence: Luis Gimeno, EPhyslab, Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Vigo, Campus As Lagoas, 32004 Ourense, Spain e-mail: [email protected] Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow regions responsible for the majority of the poleward water vapor transport across the midlatitudes. They are characterized by high water vapor content and strong low level winds, and form a part of the ...