Laura Turnbull

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of sediment connectivity is used to explain the connected transfer of sediment from a source to a sink in a catchment, and movement of sediment between different zones within the catchment: over hillslopes, between hilllopes and channels, and within channels.

TL;DR: In this paper, a refinement which distinguishes structural connectivity from functional connectivity can be used to explain patterns observed in very different environmental systems, such as linkages between surface and subsurface flowpaths and the hyporheos in the River Don, a temperate river channel in Yorkshire, UK; in surface and surface fluxes in agricultural land in UK; and in vegetation and surface conditions in a degrading environment at the Sevilleta LTER site in the semi-arid Southwest USA.

TL;DR: In this paper, a refinement which distinguishes structural connectivity from functional connectivity can be used to explain patterns observed in very different environmental systems, such as linkages between surface and subsurface flowpaths and the hyporheos in the River Don, a temperate river channel in Yorkshire, UK; in surface and surface fluxes in agricultural land in the UK; and in vegetation and surface conditions in a degrading environment at the Sevilleta LTER site in the semi-arid Southwest USA.

TL;DR: In this article, an ecohydrological framework is proposed to provide a new direction for the study of land degradation in semi-arid ecosystems, which is based upon the explicit linkage of processes operating over the continuum of temporal and spatial scales by perceiving the ecosystem as a series of structural and functional connections, within which interactions between biotic and abiotic components of the landscape occur.

TL;DR: The results suggest that xeric grasslands are likely to exhibit the greatest responsiveness of community composition (richness and turnover) to predicted future increases in interannual precipitation variability, which is consistent with the idea that short-lived and less abundant species are more sensitive to interannually climate variability than longer- lived and more abundant species.