Impacts of land-use conversions on the water cycle in a typical watershed in the southern Chinese Loess Plateau

Virtual Special Issue “Advances in forest hydrology in the light of land use change and disturbances”

“…Their simulations revealed that land use and land cover changes lead to a marked decrease in streamflow and an increase in soil water content, but to negligible alteration of evapotranspiration rates. These authors also showed that land use conversions of cropland to grassland or forest resulted in negative effects on soil water content and streamflow, and that the change in evapotranspiration was only visible in areas where cropland on steep slopes (>15 • ) was converted to grassland or forest (Hu et al, 2021).…”

“…A similar modelling approach was adopted by Hu et al (2021) to identify the spatial variability of the hydrological response to land use and land cover changes over the 1980-2010 period in different regions of the largest subcatchment of the Yellow River basin, in China. They quantified the decline of cropland and the corresponding increase in forest and grassland areas as well as the dramatic expansion of urban areas.…”

Non-stationary analysis for road drainage design under land-use and climate change scenarios

“…Land-use evolution has been reported to produce effects on surface runoff (Hu et al, 2021;Peña et al, 2016). This study analyzed the effect of land-use evolution on the peak flow and capacity of structures E1, E2, and E3.…”

Development of a Hydrodynamic Model for Regulating Water Drainage of Reservoir and Water Resources Management, Lamtakong Watershed of Thailand

“…The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model is one of the most commonly used hydrological and physically based models applied at the watershed scale for land use at a watershed size to partition total discharge into separate flow components (Aidi et al, 2021;Fu et al, 2019;Hu et al, 2021;Narayan et al, 2021;Shegaw et al, 2022;Tan et al, 2019). Approximately 4,000 academic papers on the SWAT model were published in peer-reviewed journals from 2001 to 2020 (Qiaoying & Dejian, 2021).…”