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RESEARCH ISSUES IN FOREST HYDROLOGY 1
Author(s) -
Black Peter E.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1998.tb01510.x
Subject(s) - watershed , scale (ratio) , portfolio , hydrology (agriculture) , sociology , environmental resource management , environmental science , computer science , geography , geology , business , geotechnical engineering , machine learning , cartography , finance
This paper explores a range of forest hydrology issues and identifies my concepts of the field's most pressing research needs. I extend the topic to include teaching and education in the broader sense because current teaching is usually part of the researcher's portfolio and because education involves that of both the research scientist and a broader audience. I consider the primary research, education, and service roles of the forest hydrologist also within a range of domains or, as I prefer to identify them, scales : (1) the molecular or pore level ; (2) hydrological process ; (3) watershed function ; (4) global considerations , and (5) the human dimension which, while not actually a scale itself, embraces, is important to, and is affected by the first four. All are topics screaming for attention by researchers, educators, and practitioners. I shall here focus on the middle three.