Ecohydrology of Water-Controlled Ecosystems: Soil Moisture and Plant Dynamics

Foreword Gabriel Katul Preface 1. Introduction 2. Stochastic soil moisture dynamics and water balance 3. Crossing properties of soil moisture dynamics 4. Plant water stress 5. Applications to natural ecosystems 6. Coupled dynamics of photosynthesis, transpiration and soil water balance: from hourly to growing-season time scale 7. Plant strategies and water use 8. Seasonal and interannual fluctuations in soil moisture dynamics 9. Spatial scale issues in soil moisture dynamics 10. Hydrologic controls on nutrient cycles 11. Hydrologic variability and ecosystem structure References Species index Subject index.