Soil erosion control and water resource protection can closely interact during restoration of
terrestrial ecosystems. In semi‐arid ecosystems, an urgent issue is how vegetation …

Rainfall-induced peaks in pesticide concentrations can occur rapidly. Low frequency
sampling may therefore largely underestimate maximum pesticide concentrations and …

Updated rainfall data to 2006 confirm that the Sahelian rainfall has increased since the end
of the 1990s, but the annual average rainfall is still as low as during the drought of the …

Changes in the hydrological regime of Sahelian Rivers are considered based upon the
example of the Middle Niger River and its exceptional flood in 2010 near the city of Niamey …

The difficulties in predicting whole catchment water balance from observations at patch
scales motivate a search for theories that can account for the complexity of interactions in …

The hydrological response of semiarid watersheds to short but intense rainfall events is
complex due to feedbacks among water fluxes, vegetation patches, topography, and soil …

Microtopography, consisting of small‐scale excursions in the elevation of the land surface
on millimeter to centimeter scales, is ubiquitous on hillslopes, but its effects are rarely …

Microtopography (MT) can govern runoff dynamics as a net result of local heterogeneities in
the flow paths and ponding. This in turn controls the development of the surface water layer …

Contour ridging is an effective soil conservation practice used throughout the world.
Because of microtopographic relief on sloping land, rainwater concentrates in low areas …

To investigate the effects of vegetation canopy on surface runoff, four runoff plots (2 m× 1 m
in size) were established under different types of forest canopies (S1: sawtooth oak and …