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The water balance concept-how useful is it as a guiding principle for the design of land-atmosphere field experiments? Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Bart Nijssen páginas 213-220 Responses of hydrological processes to environmental change at small catchment scales Alfred Becker, Mike Bonell ... [et al.] páginas 301-338 River Basin responses to global change and anthropogenic impacts Roland E. Schulze páginas 339-374 Responses of continental aquatic systems at the global scale: new paradigms, new methods Charles J. Vörösmarty, Michel Meybeck páginas 375-413 Case study 1 : Integrated analysis of a humid tropical region - the Amazon Basin Jeffrey E. Richey, Reynaldo Luiz Victoria ... [et al.] páginas 415-428 Case study 2 : Integrated ecohydrological analysis of a temperate developed region: the Elbe River Basin in Central Europe Valentina Krysanova, Alfredo Becker, Frank Wechsung páginas 429-439 Case study 3 : Modelling the impacts of land-use and climate change on hydrological responses in the mixed underdeveloped/developed mgeni catchment, South Africa Roland E. Schulze, Simon Lorentz ... [et al.] páginas 441-453 Conclusions: Scaling relative responses of terrestrial aquatic systems to global changes Michel Meybeck, Charles J. Vörösmarty ... [et al.] páginas 455-464

A state-of-the-art overview of the influence of terrestrial vegetation and soils within the Earth system. The text deals especially with interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere via the hydrological cycle and their interlinkage with anthropogenic activities. Measurements gathered in integrated field experiments in the Sahel, the Amazon, North America and South-east Asia confirm the importance of these interactions. Observations are complemented by modelling studies, including regional models that simulate flows and transport in river catchments, coupled land-cover and regional climate systems, and Earth-system and global circulation models. Water, nutrient and sediment fluxes in river basins are also discussed and are shown to be highly impacted and regulated by humans through land use, pollution and river engineering. Finally, the book discusses environmental vulnerability and methodologies for assessing the risks associated with regional and global climatic and environmental variability and change. The results reported in this book are based on the research work of many individual scientists and teams around the world associated with the objectives of the IGBP-BAHC and WCRP-GEWEX international research programmes. Inglés

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