Forest Hydrology
Amatya, Devendra (Research Hydrologist, USDA Forest Service, Sout Carolina, USA) / Williams, Professor Thomas (Professor Emeritus, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA) / Bren, Professor Leon (Consultant/Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne, Australia) / Jong, Professor Carmen de (Professor, University of Strasbourg, France)
Forests cover approximately 26% of the world's land surface area and represent a distinct biotic community. They interact with water and soil in a variety of ways, providing canopy surfaces which trap precipitation and allow evaporation back into the atmosphere, thus regulating how much water reaches the forest floor as through fall, as well as pull water from the soil for transpiration.The discipline "forest hydrology" has been developed thro...