آبخیزداری جنگل: فرایندها، مدیریت و ارزیابی ۲۰۱۶
Forest Hydrology: Processes, Management and Assessment 2016

The principles of forest hydrology were developed throughout the 20th century with the first book on forest hydrology published as Principles of Forest Hydrology by John D. Hewlett and Wade L. Nutter (University of Georgia, USA) in 1969. In Europe, this was followed in 1971 by the book Wald, Wachstum und Umwelt - Waldklima und Wasserhaushalt (Forest, Growth and Environment - Forest Climatology and Forest Hydrology) by G. Mitscherlich (J.D. Sauerländer Verlag, Germany). However, the context and concepts of forest landscape, land use and management, and human and natural disturbances have since changed and are continually changing. Accordingly, in recent years increasing attention has been paid towards advancing the science of forest hydrology to increase our understanding of forest hydrological processes, their interactions with other land uses and environments, their impacts on ecosystem functions and services in the face of changing climate, and their appropriate application at the watershed or basin scale. Advances in computing, sensors and information technology have accelerated this trend in the past few decades. To keep up with the growing knowledge of forests and water in a changing environment, the book Watershed Hydrology was published by Peter E. Black (Prentice Hall in 1991) followed by a summary of recent advances in Canadian forest hydrology by Buttle et al. (2000) in Hydrological Processes journal and a textbook for students, Forest Hydrology: An Introduction to Water and Forests by Mingteh Chang (CRC Press, USA), in 2003. An overview of a featured collection on forest hydrology in China was published by Sun et al. (2008) in Journal of the American Water Resources Association. In 2011 a new book on Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry edited by D.L. Levia, D. Carlyle-Moses and T. Tanaka (Springer) was published, linking hydrology to biogeochemistry. The newest one, Forest Hydrology and Catchment Management: An Australian Perspective, aimed primarily for students and land managers, was published by our own co-editor Leon Bren (Springer, December 2014).