South American Dry Chaco rangelands: Positive effects of cattle trampling and transit on ecohydrological functioning

PN Magliano, DD Breshears, F Murray… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Livestock production in drylands requires consideration of the ecological applications of
ecohydrological redistribution of water. Intensive cattle trampling and the associated …

Changes in water fluxes partition related to the replacement of native dry forests by crops in the Dry Chaco

P Rodriguez, R Giménez, MD Nosetto… - Journal of Arid …, 2020 - Elsevier
Land-use change has been the strongest driver of vegetation cover change in the world. In
the South American Dry Chaco (~ 1 M km 2; PPT/ET 0< 0.65), native dry forests are …

Rainfall–streamflow response times for diverse upland UK micro-basins: quantifying hydrographs to identify the nonlinearity of storm response

D Mindham, K Beven, N Chappell - Hydrology Research, 2023 - iwaponline.com
While it is known that antecedent conditions and rainfall profiles contribute to the
nonlinearity of streamflow response and that hydrograph shape can be dependent on the …

Transformation of tall-tussock grasslands and soil water dynamics in the Flooding Pampa

X Sirimarco, S Villarino, MP Barral, M Puricelli… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cow-calf production is the main practice within marginal agricultural lands of the world, like
the Flooding Pampa of Argentina, where it promotes the transformation of native tall-tussock …

A statistical comparison of spatio‐temporal surface moisture patterns beneath a semi‐natural grassland and permanent pasture: From drought to saturation

EE Wallace, NA Chappell - Hydrological Processes, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Some 60% of the agricultural land in the UK is grassland. This is mostly located in the wetter
uplands of the west and north, with the majority intensively managed as permanent pasture …

The importance of retention times in Natural Flood Management interventions

E Follett, K Beven, B Hankin, D Mindham… - Proceedings of …, 2024 - piahs.copernicus.org
The starting point for this study is the simulation study of Metcalfe et al.(2018) which
suggested that retention times of the order of 10 h are required for natural flood …

Contrasting CO2 and water vapour fluxes in dry forest and pasture sites of central Argentina

MD Nosetto, E Luna Toledo, PN Magliano… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The dry forests of South America are a key player of the global carbon cycle and the regional
water cycle, but they are being intensively deforested. We used eddy covariance …

Nutrient loss to erosion responds to rain characteristics under transformed landscapes in the Río Grande basin, Colombian Andes

D Suescún, JD León, JC Villegas… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The functioning of tropical montane ecosystems are key provider of environmental services.
However, climate and land use change interactively affect the ecohydrological and …

Sensitivity of groundwater levels and chemistry to partial removal of vegetation in Prosopis woodlands of the Monte Desert, Argentina

PA Meglioli, PE Villagra, JN Aranibar, PN Magliano… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Land use changes affecting ecological and hydrological processes often shape the
biogeochemistry of deserts. As highly productive hotspots, Prosopis flexuosa woodlands …

Contrasting effects of native and exotic vegetation on soil infiltrability in the Sonoran Desert

PAM Leite, AE Castellanos, BP Wilcox… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Invasion by exotic grasses is transforming drylands across the planet, but the
ecohydrological feedbacks of such invasions are not fully understood. For example, in the …