Subsurface Hydrological Responses to Land Cover and Land Use Changes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Subsurface Water Responses to Land Cover/Use Changes: An Overview

   • Makoto Taniguchi

   Pages 1-20

3. Land Management Impacts on Evaporation from Shallow, Saline Water Tables

   • Peter J. Thorburn

   Pages 21-34

4. Role of Soil Water in the Regional Hydrological Process in SriLanka

   • Jun Shimada, Tsutomu Yamanaka, Tadashi Tanaka, V. Nandakumar

   Pages 35-46

5. Using Heat Pulse and Deuterium Tracing Techniques to Estimate Tree Water Use

   • S. J. Kalma, P. J. Thorburn, G. M. Dunn

   Pages 47-60

6. Response of Simulated Upflow from Shallow Water Tables to Variations in Model Parameter Values

   • Peter J. Thorburn, Wayne S. Meyer

   Pages 61-71

7. Anthropogenic Impacts on the Distribution of Playa Lake Salinity

   • Scott W. Tyler, Ian A. White, Robin A. Wooding

   Pages 73-86

8. Hydrology and Geochemistry of Coal Spoil and Final Voids

   • David A. Ellerbroek, David R. Jones, Lloyd R. Townley, John C. Eames

   Pages 87-104

9. Comparison of the pH Determining Factor of the Streamwater in World Forest Watershed

   • Nobuhito Ohte, Yuko Asano

   Pages 105-120

10. Streamflow and Salinity Response to Agricultural Clearing at the Warren River Basin, Western Australia

    • Mohammed A. Bari

    Pages 121-138

11. Changes in Surface and Subsurface Temperatures after Clearing Forest in Western Australia

    • Makoto Taniguchi, David R. Williamson, Adrian J. Peck

    Pages 139-151

12. Hydrogeological Characterisation of Catchments Using Hydrogeomorphic Analysis of Regional Spatial Data (HARSD): Characterisation of Axe Creek Catchment, Victoria, Australia

    • R. B. Salama, T. Hatton, G. M. Elder, L. Ye

    Pages 153-166

13. Hydrological/Environmental Impacts of Tree Harvesting within Flatwood Pine Forests Upon Local Wetlands

    • Ali Fares, Robert S. Mansell, Stephen A. Bloom

    Pages 167-186

14. Simulated Impacts of Climate Change on Groundwater Recharge in the Subtropics of Queensland, Australia

    • Timothy R. Green, Bryson C. Bates, P. Mick Fleming, Stephen P. Charles

    Pages 187-204

15. Remotely Sensed Vegetation Data for Hydrological Applications: Calibrating Airborne and Satellite Data With Biomass

    • Geraldine A. Cusack, Michael F. Hutchinson, Jetse D. Kalma

    Pages 205-220

16. Back Matter

    Pages 221-226

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Since human beings first appeared on the earth, we have changed land cover and land use for our own purposes, such as conveniences and high productivity. As a result of the land cover and land use changes, many serious environmental problems occur on the earth. Studying meteorological and hydrological effects of vegetation and land cover/use changes helps us to understand the environmental changes and problems happening near the earth surface, because the vegetation distributes the solar energy and water on the earth surface into atmosphere and geosphere. Subsurface hydrological responses to land cover and land use changes have drawn only regional environmental concerns, although global change caused by biosphere change has been studied in various scientific fields. The changes in land cover and land use alter water, solute and heat cycles in basins and elements of those balances, including evapotranspiration, groundwater recharge rate, discharge rates into rivers or ocean and soil moisture content, which are directly or indirectly related to the global environmental issues. Therefore, the changes in biosphere may substantially alter the subsurface hydrological system. For instance, increased groundwater recharge rates following clearing forest into grasses might be one consequence resulting in rising water tables and salinization.

• Groundwater
• atmosphere
• geochemistry
• hydrology
• temperature
• vegetation
• water table
• hydrogeology
• ecotoxicology

• Nara University of Education, Nara, Japan

  Makoto Taniguchi

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