Jonathan M. G. Viducich, Sevval S. Gulduren, Joe M. Ellingson, John S. Selker
{"title":"Geomorphological and Sedimentological Rationale for Staged Sand Dam Construction","authors":"Jonathan M. G. Viducich, Sevval S. Gulduren, Joe M. Ellingson, John S. Selker","doi":"10.1002/hyp.15307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15307","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Stream sediment transport results from a convolution of climate, weather, geology, topography, biology, and human influence. In addition to providing water and food security for rural dryland communities, sand dams—small weirs designed to trap only the coarse fractions of transported sediments in seasonal and ephemeral streams—highlight many complexities of geomorphological dynamics. Sand dams store water in interstitial riverbed pores and the size of deposited sediment particles largely determines the recoverability of stored water: Fine materials limit transmission and provide lower volumetric yield. In this study, we seek to identify a practical method for evaluating the theoretical effect of staged sand dam crest construction on key sediment-trapping processes for a proposed dam site. We argue that the Rouse number provides a useful criterion for identifying regimes where the target material grades are trapped. These ideas were tested using sediment data collected in Kenya and US Army Corps of Engineers River Analysis System numerical simulations to evaluate the sensitivity of sedimentation processes to crest height. We show that constructing sand dams in stages results in more targeted trapping of coarse material. Sedimentation is shown to be more sensitive to variation in crest height than the flood hydrograph, especially when a dam's crest height is small. By introducing a method to assess the necessity and inform design of staged crest construction based on local flow dynamics, this study offers a framework for optimising sand dam performance in data-scarce environments. This approach provides a means to balance construction costs with expected benefits, enhancing the sustainability and functionality of sand dams in arid and semi-arid regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":13189,"journal":{"name":"Hydrological Processes","volume":"38 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hyp.15307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142439109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A critical assessment of geological weighing lysimeters: Part 2—Modelling field scale soil moisture storage and hydrological fluxes","authors":"Morgan Braaten, Andrew Ireson, Martyn Clark","doi":"10.1002/hyp.15287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15287","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Land surface models (LSMs) are used to simulate the terrestrial component of water, energy, and biogeochemical cycles. These simulations are useful for water resources management, drought and flood prediction, and numerical climate/weather prediction. However, the usefulness of LSMs are dependent by their ability to reproduce states and fluxes realistically. Accurate measurements of water storage are useful to calibrate and validate LSMs outputs. Geological weighing lysimeters (GWLs) are instruments that can provide field-scale estimates of integrated total water storage within a soil profile. We use field estimates of total water storage and subsurface storage to critically evaluate two different land surface models: the Modélisation Environnementale communautaire—Surface Hydrology (MESH) which uses the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS), and the Structure for Unifying Multiple Modeling Alternatives: (SUMMA). These models have differences in how the processes and properties of the land surface are represented. We attempted to parameterize each model in an equivalent manner, to minimize model differences. Both models were able to reproduce observations of total water storage and subsurface storage reasonably well. However, there were inconsistencies in the simulated timing of snowmelt; depth of soil freezing; total evapotranspiration; partitioning of evaporation between soil evaporation and evaporation of intercepted water; and soil drainage. No one model emerged as better overall, though each model had specific strengths and weaknesses that we describe. Insights from this study can be used to improve model physics and performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":13189,"journal":{"name":"Hydrological Processes","volume":"38 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142447468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiongchang Zhao, Mingshuang Shen, Jianjun Zhang, Yang Yu
{"title":"Characteristics of deep soil layer water deficit under different artificial vegetation types of the Loess Plateau, China","authors":"Jiongchang Zhao, Mingshuang Shen, Jianjun Zhang, Yang Yu","doi":"10.1002/hyp.15274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15274","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Soil water is a crucial factor for the growth of vegetation and sustainable development in water-limited areas. After large-scale vegetation restoration on the Chinese Loess Plateau, understanding the relationship between vegetation and deep soil moisture has become a crucial focus in current research. In this study, artificial forest (<i>Pinus tabulaeformis</i> [PT], <i>Robinia pseudoacacia</i> [RP] and <i>Platycladus orientalis</i> [PO]), apple orchard (AO), secondary forest (SF) and farmland (FL) were selected as the research objects, and grassland (GL) as the control, using soil-drilling techniques. We systematically monitored the soil water content of 0–10 m soil layer over two hydrological years, and explored the effects of different vegetation types on soil water deficiency. The results showed that: (1) The deep soil water various significantly among different vegetation types. Compared with GL, the soil water content in all forest land was generally lower, and this difference became more pronounced in deeper soil layer (>7 m), which indicating the depth of the influence of vegetation on soil water has reached 10 m. (2) The mean soil water deficit size (SWDS) values of PT (0.14), RP (0.17), PO (0.07), AO (0.15), SF (0.10) and FL (0.27) in 0–1 m were all positive, indicating that surface soil water had accumulated during more than half of the sampling periods. In the 2–10 m soil layer, mean SWDS was negative in all vegetation types except in FL, leading to soil desiccation. SWDS was found to fluctuate with soil depth. (3) SWDS was affected by a combination of soil properties and vegetation growth. Our results indicate that the current afforestation model could lead to the deficiency of deep soil water. Therefore, it is imperative to make reasonable vegetation structure according to the available local soil and water resources in future vegetation allocation and management.</p>","PeriodicalId":13189,"journal":{"name":"Hydrological Processes","volume":"38 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142439100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ester Zancanaro, Francesco Morari, Ilaria Piccoli, Alberto Carrera, Claudia Zoccarato, Pietro Teatini
{"title":"A Novel Technique to Mitigate Saltwater Intrusion: Freshwater Recharge via Drainpipe in Permeable Paleochannels","authors":"Ester Zancanaro, Francesco Morari, Ilaria Piccoli, Alberto Carrera, Claudia Zoccarato, Pietro Teatini","doi":"10.1002/hyp.15299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15299","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Seawater intrusion (SWI) is threatening coastal aquifers and farmland productivity worldwide. Although this phenomenon naturally occurs in coastal areas, it is intensified by anthropogenic activities such as groundwater pumping and land reclamation that cause a lowering of the hydraulic head and land subsidence. Moreover, the consequences of climate change such as sea level rise, increase of the mean temperature and the shifting of rainfall events to tropical regimes, have strong negative effects on groundwater quality and agriculture. Countermeasures against SWI are needed to maintain agricultural productivity and protect the freshwater resources in coastal areas. In the low-lying farmlands surrounding the southern Venice Lagoon, in northern Italy, SWI is exacerbated by land subsidence, the presence of sandy paleochannels connected to the lagoon subsurface, seawater encroachment into the river estuaries, the presence of fossil brine waters and peat deposits. This study provides a detailed hydrogeological and geochemical characterisation of an experimental agricultural field affected by SWI located in this area using a large dataset collected over the 4 years between 2019 and 2022. Furthermore, it presents the results of novel intervention established across the farmland in 2021 to mitigate saltwater contamination. This intervention involved a controlled discharge of freshwater supplied by a reclamation channel through a 200 m-long drainpipe buried 1.5 m below the field surface along a well-preserved sandy paleochannel. The interpretation of the collected data demonstrates that the freshwater recharge carried out in 2021 and 2022 effectively reduced the groundwater salinity along the paleochannel. Moreover, statistical analyses highlighted that a certain lateral spread of freshwater occurred too, although the variability of the monitored parameters in the sites located outside the sandy body was only partially explained by the drain activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":13189,"journal":{"name":"Hydrological Processes","volume":"38 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hyp.15299","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kejia Ye, Zhongmin Liang, Hongyu Chen, Mingkai Qian, Yiming Hu, Chenglin Bi, Jun Wang, Binquan Li
{"title":"Regionalization Strategy Guided Long Short-Term Memory Model for Improving Flood Forecasting","authors":"Kejia Ye, Zhongmin Liang, Hongyu Chen, Mingkai Qian, Yiming Hu, Chenglin Bi, Jun Wang, Binquan Li","doi":"10.1002/hyp.15296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15296","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Flood forecasting in data-scarce catchments is challenging for hydrologists. To address this issue, a regional long short-term memory model (R-LSTM) is proposed. Given the diverse physical characteristics of sub-catchments, this model scalarises the runoff data based on catchment attributes including area, confluence path length, slope and minimum and maximum runoff values, thereby eliminating the local influence and producing a geomorphological-runoff factor as the model input. To assess the effectiveness of R-LSTMs for flood forecasting in data-scarce basins, the Jiaodong Peninsula in China was selected as the study area. The proposed R-LSTMs are compared with local LSTMs, regional LSTMs that do not use catchment attributes, or regional LSTMs that incorporate catchment attributes in different ways. The results show that R-LSTMs outperform the benchmarking LSTM models, especially in the simulation of flood peaks. The study indicates the potential of regionalization and the benefit of building the scalarised inputs of runoff data for regional LSTM that consider catchment attributes meticulously. The research findings can provide a reference for flood forecasting in data-scarce regions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13189,"journal":{"name":"Hydrological Processes","volume":"38 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in the Spatial Patterns of Near-Surface Soil Moisture and Environmental Controlling Factors Before and After a Landslide","authors":"Hsin-Ting Tu, Wei-Li Liang","doi":"10.1002/hyp.15306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15306","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Rain-induced landslides are common natural disturbances in forested headwaters that can strongly alter the spatial distributions of hydrological and environmental features. Although many studies have reported the impacts of landslides on the spatial patterns of soil moisture or their environmental controls, studies that have used detailed in situ data sets collected at the same location before and after a landslide are lacking. This study investigated the spatial distribution pattern of the near-surface soil moisture and environmental controls, including topographic, soil and vegetation features, in a headwater catchment using ground-based measurements with high spatial resolution after a landslide in 2016. The data set was compared to measurements taken at the same location before the landslide to explore whether the landslide altered the amount, spatial distribution, or potential controlling factors of near-surface soil moisture. The mean soil moisture decreased across the site after the landslide, even under conditions of greater rainfall input than before the landslide. Spatial variation in soil moisture decreased in the high-disturbance area but increased in the low-disturbance area, although autocorrelation distances of soil moisture changed little. The relationships between the spatial mean and standard deviation of soil moisture markedly changed from a convex-upward shape to a convex-downward shape in the highly disturbed area. This indicates that the spatial mean of soil moisture exhibited its greatest spatial variation under moderate conditions before the landslide, with the lowest spatial variation occurring after the landslide. Most of the same controlling factors (i.e., slope gradient, topographic wetness index, vegetation density, soil porosity and saturated hydraulic conductivity) were explored after the landslide, but their influence levels greatly decreased or even disappeared. Thus, the landslide weakened the spatial connectedness between soil moisture and environmental features, which has not yet been restored 6 years after the landslide. We suggest that the connectedness between hydrological responses and environmental features is crucial for restoration. Their connectedness can serve as an indicator to identify the stage of ecological succession from the disturbances of a landslide.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13189,"journal":{"name":"Hydrological Processes","volume":"38 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Responses of vegetation to hydroclimatic variables on the Loess Plateau after large scale vegetation restoration","authors":"Huijun Feng, Jiming Jin","doi":"10.1002/hyp.15283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15283","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding plant-water relations is essential for effective regional water management and promoting ecologically sustainable development on the Loess Plateau, especially in the context of the Grain for Green project initiated in 1999. This study evaluated the variations in vegetation variables (leaf area index, enhanced vegetation index, solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary production) and hydroclimatic variables (precipitation, total water storage, aridity index and standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index) from 2003 to 2020, along with their interactions across the Loess Plateau. Our analysis revealed a general increase in vegetation variables, with the largest increase observed in the forest expansion areas. Precipitation and the aridity index exhibited significant upwards trends, while total water storage showed a significant decline, particularly in the forest expansion areas. Vegetation variables were more sensitive to changes in total water storage across the Loess Plateau. In the northwest region, where large-scale croplands and grasslands expansion occurred, vegetation variables also showed sensitivity to precipitation. Lag effect analysis revealed short time lags (1–3 months) between vegetation and hydroclimatic variables, expect for total water storage (6 months). Overall, human activities and climate factors contributed 58.4% and 41.6% to the increase in leaf area index, and 52.2% and 47.8% to the increase in gross primary production, respectively. In relatively arid environments, precipitation contributed over 50% to the observed vegetation greening. This study underscores the increasingly significant role of human activities in driving vegetation greening on the Loess Plateau, particularly in large-scale afforestation areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":13189,"journal":{"name":"Hydrological Processes","volume":"38 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salam A. Abbas, Ryan T. Bailey, Jeremy T. White, Jeffrey G. Arnold, Michael J. White
{"title":"Quantifying the Role of Calibration Strategies on Surface-Subsurface Hydrologic Model Performance","authors":"Salam A. Abbas, Ryan T. Bailey, Jeremy T. White, Jeffrey G. Arnold, Michael J. White","doi":"10.1002/hyp.15298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15298","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Distributed, coupled surface-groundwater hydrologic models are high-dimensional, given the necessity to reflect the spatially diverse nature of complex hydrologic processes. Furthermore, inverse/inference problems involving these high-dimensional models are naturally ill-posed, given the limited information content of state observations that are typically assimilated. Many inversion/inference algorithms do not cope well with high dimensionality, leaving the practitioner to make subjective choices related to uncertain model inputs. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of these subjective calibration choices within a formal sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, and parameters estimation (SA-UA-PE) framework on model testing for a surface-subsurface hydrologic model. In doing so, we address the concepts of ‘over-parameterisation’ and ‘under-parameterisation’. We completed a series of numerical experiments, testing several otherwise subjective aspects of the calibration process: (1) the number (5, 10, 15, 20) and type (soil, aquifer, land surface, channel) of calibration parameters selected); (2) the type of state observations assimilated (streamflow, groundwater head); and (3) the length of testing period (1 to 14 years), using monthly streamflow and groundwater head as testing data. The experiments were completed for models of the Winnebago River watershed (Minnesota, Iowa), (significant tile drainage) and the Nanticoke River watershed (Delaware, Maryland (significant groundwater-channel interactions). The selected hydrologic model is SWAT+, using the <i>gwflow</i> module for physically based groundwater storage and flow modelling, and simulations are run for the 2000–2015 period. Through this process, we found that increasing the number of parameters from 5 to 15 improves the representation of streamflow, principally through an improvement of groundwater storage representation and baseflow generation, but minimal improvement when increasing to 20 parameters. Therefore, the SA-UA-PE process can be optimised based on an ideal number of parameters that yield adequate results while maintaining a lower computational burden. The method presented here can be used for any watershed, using integrated surface-subsurface hydrologic models.</p>","PeriodicalId":13189,"journal":{"name":"Hydrological Processes","volume":"38 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hyp.15298","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Partitioning of Evapotranspiration and Its Response to Eco-Environmental Factors Over an Alpine Grassland on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau Based on the SiB2 Model","authors":"Cong Xu, Gaofeng Zhu, Yang Zhang, Tao Che","doi":"10.1002/hyp.15295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15295","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Partitioning evapotranspiration (ET) is challenging but essential for understanding the exchange of energy, water, and carbon between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. In this study, we applied the simple biosphere model (SiB2) to partition ET at a typical alpine grassland site on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP). In addition, through process-based model scenario experiments, we quantified the effects of four environmental factors on ET components and predicted their evolution under the two future carbon emission scenarios (ssp126 and ssp585). Our findings are summarized as follows: (1) The original version of SiB2, despite its simple structure, effectively simulates ET and its components. (2) The ratios of annual total transpiration (<i>T</i>), soil evaporation (<i>E</i><sub><i>s</i></sub>), and canopy interception evaporation (<i>E</i><sub><i>i</i></sub>) to ET in the alpine grassland ecosystem were 51%, 43%, and 6%, respectively. (3) Each 100 mm increase in annual precipitation results in a significant increase in soil evaporation (2.77%). A 1°C increase in air temperature leads to a significant increase in vegetation transpiration (5.22%) and canopy interception evaporation (5.63%). Each 100 ppm increase in CO<sub>2</sub> concentration causes a significant decrease in <i>T</i> (−5.43%) and ET (−2.97%). An increase in LAI (1 m<sup>2</sup> m<sup>−2</sup>) has the largest effect on canopy interception evaporation (4.67%). (4) Under the high carbon emission scenario (ssp585), all ET components in this ecosystem show a significant growth trend, particularly vegetation transpiration and canopy interception evaporation. These findings will facilitate more precise predictions of the water cycle dynamics, reveal land-atmosphere interaction mechanisms, and aid in the protection of the ecological environment of the QTP.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13189,"journal":{"name":"Hydrological Processes","volume":"38 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcelle Teodoro Lima, Samir Leite Mathias, Manuel Enrique Gamero Guandique, Aparecido Junior de Menezes, John Toland Van Stan II, Kelly Cristina Tonello
{"title":"Exploring Bark-Water Interaction Effects on Stemflow Nutrient Concentrations in Urban Trees","authors":"Marcelle Teodoro Lima, Samir Leite Mathias, Manuel Enrique Gamero Guandique, Aparecido Junior de Menezes, John Toland Van Stan II, Kelly Cristina Tonello","doi":"10.1002/hyp.15294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15294","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates the influence of bark properties on nutrient fluxes in urban environments, focusing on the relationship between bark wettability, chemical composition, and the concentrations of nutrients in stemflow and adjacent soil across eight urban tree species. Through a comprehensive analysis involving chemical assays and ecohydrological measurements, we explored how variations in bark characteristics affect water interaction and subsequent chemical dynamics within urban landscapes. Contrary to the initial hypothesis that bark properties would significantly influence nutrient flux, results revealed a complex scenario where environmental and anthropogenic factors in urban settings seemingly overshadow the direct impact of bark characteristics on nutrient dynamics. Our findings indicate that while bark properties such as wettability and chemical composition do vary among tree species, these variations do not directly correlate with significant differences in stemflow or soil nutrient concentrations. This suggests a homogenising effect of urban environments on ecohydrological processes, highlighting the need for a broader understanding of urban forest ecology that incorporates both biological traits and urban-specific environmental influences. This research contributes to the field of urban ecohydrology by underscoring the complexity of nutrient fluxes in urban forests and suggesting that effective urban tree management requires an integrated approach that considers the interplay between tree physiological traits and urban environmental conditions. Our study calls for further research to unravel the intricate dynamics of urban ecosystems, aiming to enhance the sustainability and ecological benefits of urban forests.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13189,"journal":{"name":"Hydrological Processes","volume":"38 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}