Forest Soil Water in Landscape Context
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F21%3A43918155" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/21:43918155 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93003" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93003</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93003" target="_blank" >10.5772/intechopen.93003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Forest Soil Water in Landscape Context
Original language description
Forests play an irreplaceable role in linking the water cycle with the functions of soil. Soil water not only enhances the stability of forests, but also its run-off and evaporation affects the growth of plants in different ecosystems. The forest soil water balance is contextualized within the immediate and more global landscapes, in terms of relations of water to the soil environment and bedrock, participation in the local water cycle within a catchment basin and in the global cycle between ecosystems. Modifications by human civilization can have significant impacts, including erosion intensification, eutrophication, salinization, spreading of single-species plantations, and regime shifts. Forests regulate the movement of water in the soil environment by reducing the intensity of run-off. Such moderated run-off prevents the occurrence of flash floods, maintaining continuous availability of water for plant and human use. Participation of soil water in the cycling of elements in forests is modified by soil organic matter balance. The preservation of hydric functions in forest soils depends on prioritization of water balance restoration in every catchment basin enclosing the local element cycle. More fundamentally, the development of a synergistically interlinked system, centered around the soil-forest-water-civilization nexus, must become an urgent priority.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40104 - Soil science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Soil Moisture Importance
ISBN
978-1-83968-095-3
Number of pages of the result
28
Pages from-to
45-72
Number of pages of the book
142
Publisher name
IntechOpen Limited
Place of publication
Londýn
UT code for WoS chapter
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