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Chapter 1. Introduction -- SECTION 1: FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES AND INTERACTIONS IN THE SOIL-CLIMATE-VEGETATION SYSTEM -- Chapter 2. Soil Moisture Dynamics in Water-Limited Ecosystems -- Chapter3. Soil physical properties and associated soil-root interactions -- Chapter 4. Ecophysiology of plants in dry environments -- Chapter 5. Ecohydrology of Photosynthesis -- Chapter 6. Ecohydrological controls on the deposition of non-rainfall water, N and P to dryland ecosystems -- Interactions and feedbacks between climate and dryland vegetations -- SECTION 2: HYDROGEOMORPHOLOGY AND LANDFORMS OF ARID AND SEMIARID LANDSCAPES -- Chapter 8. The history and evolution of desert hydrology and landforms: The role of climate change -- Chapter 9. Ecohydrological implications of aeolian processes in drylands -- Chapter 10. Hydrological and geomorphological significance of riparian vegetation in drylands -- SECTION 3: ECOHYDROLOGIC CONTROLS on NUTRIENT CYCLING and DISTURBANCES -- Chapter 11. Ecohydrological and stoichiometric controls on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in drylands -- Chapter 12. Modeling of Phosphorus Dynamics in Dryland Ecosystems -- Chapter 13. Microbial nitric oxide, nitrous oxide and nitrous acid emissions from drylands -- Chapter 14. Fire regimes in dryland landscapes -- Chapter 15. Termites as mediators of the water economy of arid savanna ecosystems -- SECTION 4: ECOHYDROLOGY OF A VARIETY OF DRYLAND ECOSYSTEMS -- Chapter 16. Interactions of water and nitrogen on primary productivity across spatial and temporal scales in grassland and shrubland ecosystems -- Chapter 17. Deforestation, water availability, and nutrient cycling in dry forests -- Chapter 18. Vegetation pattern formation in drylands -- Chapter 19. Ecohydrology of agroecosystems – Interactions between local and global processes -- Chapter 20. Ecohydrology of urban ecosystems -- Chapter 21. Desertification and land degradation

Estuarine Ecohydrology, Second Edition, provides an ecohydrology viewpoint of an estuary as an ecosystem by focusing on its principal components, the river, the estuarine waters, the sediment, the nutrients, the wetlands, the oceanic influence, and the aquatic food web, as well as models of the health of an estuary ecosystem. Estuaries, the intersection of freshwater and coastal ecosystems, exhibit complex physical and biological processes which must be understood in order to sustain and restore them when necessary. This book demonstrates how, based on an understanding of the processes

Ecohydrology is a fast-growing branch of science at the interface of ecology and geophysics, studying the interaction between soil, water, vegetation, microbiome, atmosphere, climate, and human society. This textbook gathers the fundamentals of hydrology, ecology, environmental engineering, agronomy, and atmospheric science to provide a rigorous yet accessible description of the tools necessary for the mathematical modelling of water, energy, carbon, and nutrient transport within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. By focusing on the dynamics at multiple time scales, from the diurnal scale in the soil-plant-atmospheric system, to long-term stochastic dynamics of water availability responsible for ecological patterns and environmental fluctuations, it explains the impact of hydroclimatic variability on vegetation and soil microbial systems through biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems under different socioeconomical pressures. It is aimed at advanced students, researchers and professionals in hydrology, ecology, Earth science, environmental engineering, environmental science, agronomy, and atmospheric science.