Agriculture provides humanity with food, fibers, fuel, and raw materials that are paramount
for human livelihood. Today, this role must be satisfied within a context of environmental …

Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are now recognized to support specific
freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services and represent approximately half of the …

Core Ideas TxSON is a Core Cal/Val Site for the NASA SMAP, SMOS, and Sentinel
programs. TxSON consists of 40 in situ locations nested within a 36‐km EASE2 grid cell …

Agroecosystems are facing new challenges in the context of a growing and increasingly
interconnected human population, and a paradigm shift is needed to successfully address …

Over the past decades, several filters have been developed to derive a Digital Terrain Model
(DTM) from a Digital Surface Model (DSM), by means of filtering out aboveground objects …

Exploring crop spatial organizations within landscapes is a promising solution for
agroecological transitions and climate change adaptation in Mediterranean rainfed hilly …

Core Ideas Awareness of hydrological observatories needs to be increased. These 23
papers document hydrological observatories on four continents. Hydrological observatories …

The current study aims to document evapotranspiration and associated surface energy
fluxes for rainfed annual crops within a Mediterranean hilly agrosystem, in order to provide …

ABSTRACT The French Critical Zone research infrastructure, OZCAR-RI, gathers 20
observatories sampling various compartments of the critical zone, each having developed …

Rainfall is the key factor to understand soil erosion processes, mechanisms, and rates. Most
research was conducted to determine rainfall characteristics and their relationship with soil …