Stochastic soil moisture dynamics and vegetation response Book

abstract

• Oxford University Press 2005. All rights reserved. This chapter describes work on a stochastic soil moisture model that has been used to investigate the relationship between the hydrologic and vegetation dynamics ecohydrology in water-controlled ecosystems. Such systems are complex evolving structures whose characteristics and dynamic properties depend on many links between climate, soil, and vegetation. After a discussion of the soil water balance and a brief account of rainfall modeling, infiltration, and runoff, evapotranspiration and drainage are sketched. The probabilistic modeling of the soil moisture process and of long-term water balance are discussed, followed by minimalist modeling of soil moisture dynamics. The chapter concludes with a brief account of plant water stress, with an application to the Kalahari precipitation gradient.

authors

• Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio

author list (cited authors)

• Porporato, A., & Rodrguez-Iturbe, I.

complete list of authors

• Porporato, Amilcare||Rodríguez-Iturbe, Ignacio

publication date

• September 2005

publisher

• Oxford University Press  Publisher

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198566540.003.0003

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9780198566540

start page

• 55

end page

• 72

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198566540.003.0003