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Fort Collins Science Center, USGS, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USACorrespondence to: L. Wang (w.lixin@gmail.com)Ecohydrology has advanced rapidly in the past fewdecades. A search of the topic “ecohydrology” in the Webof Science showed an exponential growth of both publica-tions and citations. The number of publications and citationsincreased from 7 and 6, respectively in 2000 to 65 and 1262by 26 November 2012 (Fig. 1). Even with slightly differentfocus and denitions among scientists, ecohydrology is es-sentially a science dealing with the interactions between eco-logical and hydrological processes (e.g. Kundzewicz, 2002).Different from traditional hydrology, ecohydrology focusesmore on the “eco-” component. Many recent ecohydrologi-cal studies have focused on the climate–soil–vegetation inter-actions in natural ecosystems (e.g. Rodriguez-Iturbe, 2000;D’Odorico et al., 2010; Miller et al., 2012). Changes in nat-ural (e.g. droughts and oods) and anthropogenic (e.g. landuse changes and population growth) drivers will undoubtedlyaffect hydrological cycles and water availability in all natu-ral and managed ecosystems (Jackson et al., 2009). A betterunderstanding of mechanism and consequence of changes inhydrological processes on ecosystems and societies will in-crease our ability to develop effective adaptation strategiesto minimize the adverse effects of hydrological alternations(Vose et al., 2011). Ecohydrological science in both naturaland human-dominated landscapes is therefore needed to helpsolve many of the immediate needs of modern environmen-tal and resource issues, especially water and food shortages(Liu and Yang, 2010). We foresee that ecohydrologists willbe increasingly called upon to address questions regardingvegetation and climate changes and their inuence on watersecurity at a range of spatial and temporal scales in the future.This special issue is a product of three ecohydrology ses-sions at the 8th International Association of Landscape Ecol-ogy (IALE) World Congress in Beijing, 2011. The arti-cles address recent advances in the understanding of the in-teractions among climate, water, biogeochemistry and landmanagement practices, such as afforestation and ecologicalrestoration. The spatial scales of these articles range fromplot to regional scales. In particular, this special issue fo-cuses on the following three aspects of recent advances inecohydrological science:1. New understanding of the consequences of anthro-pogenic activities (e.g. deforestation, water manage-ment) and climate change on water cycles, water qual-ity and biogeochemical dynamics under various geo-graphical and socioeconomical conditions. For exam-ple, Zhang et al. (2012) evaluated the effects of planta-tion expansion on streamow regimes for 15 catchmentsin Australia, with sizes ranging from 0.6 to 1136km

Preface &quot;Water, climate, and vegetation: ecohydrology in a changing world&quot;

Preface "Water, climate, and vegetation: ecohydrology in a changing world"