Reframing landscape fragmentation's effects on ecosystem services

MGE Mitchell, AF Suarez-Castro… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
Landscape structure and fragmentation have important effects on ecosystem services, with a
common assumption being that fragmentation reduces service provision. This is based on …

The hydrology of the humid tropics

E Wohl, A Barros, N Brunsell, NA Chappell… - Nature Climate …, 2012 - nature.com
Hydrological processes in the humid tropics differ from other regions in having greater
energy inputs and faster rates of change, including human-induced change. Human …

An operational framework for defining and monitoring forest degradation

ID Thompson, MR Guariguata, K Okabe… - Ecology and …, 2013 - JSTOR
Forest degradation is broadly defined as a reduction in the capacity of a forest to produce
ecosystem services such as carbon storage and wood products as a result of anthropogenic …

Trade‐off between vegetation type, soil erosion control and surface water in global semi‐arid regions: A meta‐analysis

GL Wu, YF Liu, Z Cui, Y Liu, ZH Shi… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Effect of urban green space changes on the role of rainwater runoff reduction in Beijing, China

B Zhang, N Li, S Wang - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2015 - Elsevier
The effects of urban green spaces on stormwater runoff have increasingly attracted attention
because of climate change and rapid urbanization conditions. This study investigates the …

Partial least-squares regression for linking land-cover patterns to soil erosion and sediment yield in watersheds

ZH Shi, L Ai, X Li, XD Huang, GL Wu, W Liao - Journal of hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
There are strong ties between land cover patterns and soil erosion and sediment yield in
watersheds. The spatial configuration of land cover has recently become an important …

Environmental consequences of the demise in swidden cultivation in montane mainland Southeast Asia: hydrology and geomorphology

AD Ziegler, TB Bruun, M Guardiola-Claramonte… - Human Ecology, 2009 - Springer
The hydrological and geomorphological impacts of traditional swidden cultivation in
Montane Mainland Southeast Asia are virtually inconsequential, whereas the impacts …

The impact of forest use and reforestation on soil hydraulic conductivity in the Western Ghats of India: Implications for surface and sub-surface hydrology

M Bonell, BK Purandara, B Venkatesh… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
There is comparatively limited information in the humid tropics on the surface and sub-
surface permeability of:(i) forests which have been impacted by multi-decades of human …

Quantitative analysis of factors controlling sediment yield in mountainous watersheds

ZH Shi, XD Huang, L Ai, NF Fang, GL Wu - Geomorphology, 2014 - Elsevier
Sediment and turbidity are primary causes of impaired river ecosystems; remedial action for
these impairments requires the identification of their sources and controlling factors. This …

KINEROS2/AGWA: Model use, calibration, and validation

DC Goodrich, IS Burns, CL Unkrich… - Transactions of the …, 2012 - elibrary.asabe.org
KINEROS (KINematic runoff and EROSion) originated in the 1960s as a distributed event-
based model that conceptualizes a watershed as a cascade of overland flow model …