附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-438) and indexes.
Foreword / Gabriel Katul -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stochastic soil moisture dynamics and water balance -- 3. Crossing properties of soil moisture dynamics -- 4. Plant water stress -- 5. Applications to natural ecosystems -- 6. Coupled dynamics of photosynthesis, transpiration and soil water balance: from hourly to growing-season time scale -- 7. Plant strategies and water use -- 8. Seasonal and interannual fluctuations in soil moisture dynamics -- 9. Spatial scale issues in soil moisture dynamics -- 10. Hydrologic controls on nutrient cycles -- 11. Hydrologic variability and ecosystem structure -- References -- Species index -- Subject index.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Ecohydrology of water-controlled ecosystems -- 1.2 Simplifying assumptions -- 1.3 Levels of description -- 1.4 Temporal scales -- 1.5 Spatial dimensions -- 1.6 Soil moisture and the cycles of soil nutrients -- 1.7 Soil moisture dynamics and ecosystem structure -- 2 Stochastic soil moisture dynamics and water balance -- 2.1 Soil water balance at a point -- 2.1.1 Rainfall modeling -- 2.1.2 Interception -- 2.1.3 Infiltration and runoff -- 2.1.4 Active soil depth -- 2.1.5 Evapotranspiration -- 2.1.6 Leakage losses -- 2.1.7 Soil-drying process -- 2.2 Probabilistic evolution of the soil moisture process -- 2.3 Steady-state probability distribution of soil moisture -- 2.4 Water balance -- 2.5 Comparison with field data -- 2.6 Simpler models of soil moisture dynamics -- 2.6.1 A simplified stochastic model of soil moisture dynamics -- 2.6.2 Minimalistic models of soil moisture dynamics -- 2.7 Appendix A. Soil moisture cumulative probability distribution -- 3 Crossing properties of soil moisture dynamics -- 3.1 Mean first passage times of processes driven by white shot noise -- 3.1.1 MFPT's of a threshold8230;above the initial point s -- 3.1.2 MFPT's of a threshold8230;below the initial point8230; -- 3.2 Crossing properties of the soil moisture process -- 3.3 Duration of excursions between two different levels of soil moisture -- 3.4 MFPT's for minimalistic models of soil moisture -- 3.4.1 The minimalistic model with constant losses -- 3.4.2 The minimalistic model with linear losses -- 3.5 Appendix B. Backward differential equation and crossing properties -- 3.5.1 Derivation of the backward equation for the soil moisture process -- 3.5.2 From the backward equation to the crossing properties -- 4 Plant water stress -- 4.1 Soil-water deficit and plant water stress -- 4.1.1 The components of plant water potential -- 4.1.2 Plant water potential and soil moisture dynamics -- 4.
摘要:This book addresses the connections between the hydrologic cycle and plant ecosystems. It will appeal to advanced students and researchers from a large range of disciplines, including environmental science, hydrology, ecology, earth science, civil and environmental engineering, agriculture, and atmospheric science.
