“…The combination of climate and structural controls at the catchment scale can generate a diversity of flow responses for each rainfall event. For water resource management, it is important to understand the interplay between these processes and water fluxes within and out of the system, including the effects of land‐use change, climate variability, and change (Penna et al, 2021; Tetzlaff et al, 2008; Zehe et al, 2007). This issue is particularly relevant in Southeast Brazil, given the region's vulnerability to recent droughts (Domingues & da Rocha, 2022), increasing land‐use/cover changes, such as deforestation, afforestation, urbanization, crop rotation, and pasture management (Chagas & Chaffe, 2018), increasing population growth and water demand (He et al, 2021), and the risk of climate change (Domingues et al, 2022).…”