"Hydrology of Artificial and Controlled Experiments" ed. by Jiu-Fu Liu, Wei-Zu Gu

The goals of this book are to stimulate the approach of manipulation in promoting watershed hydrological experimentation and to try to demonstrate that the controlled and artificial experiments are the promising way of useful and effective generation of tests of new theories.

For the incisive tests of hydrological theory, manipulation experiments can create particular conditions, plan and define boundaries and inner structures, isolate individual mechanisms, and push systems beyond the range in a PhD timescale. This book is organized on the basis of nine different manipulation types from six countries including field lysimeter, field runoff plot, field manipulated experimental basin, field artificial catchment, laboratory river segment, laboratory pedon (rock), laboratory lysimeter, laboratory hillslope, and phytotron artificial catchment.

Contents
1. Experimental Watersheds at Coshocton, Ohio, USA: Experiences and Establishing New Experimental Watersheds
2. Controlled Experiments of Hillslope Coevolution at the Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory: Toward Prediction of Coupled Hydrological, Biogeochemical, and Ecological Change
3. Ecosystem Development in the Constructed Catchment “Chicken Creek”
4. Changes of Water Budget during Ecosystem Development in Post-Mining Sites at Various Spatiotemporal Scales: The Need for Controlled Systems
5. Water Cycle Process Research: Experiments and Observations
6. Experimental Study on the Mechanisms of Soil Water-Solute- Heat Transport and Nutrient Loss Control
7. Relation between Infiltration Rate, Cover Materials and Hydraulic Conductivity of Forest Soils in Japanese Cedar and Hiba Arborvitae Plantation Forests under Artificial Rainfall in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
8. Field-Controlled Hydrological Experiments in Red Soil-Covered Areas (South China): A Review
9. Fluid Flow, Mass, and Heat Transport Laboratory Experiments in Artificially Fractured Rock
10. Experimental Variant Slope Soil Tank for Measurements of Runoff and Soil Erosion
11. Practice on the Watershed Hydrological Experimental System Reconciling Deterministic and Stochastic Subjects Based on the System Complexity: 1. Theoretical Study
12. Practices on the Watershed Hydrological Experimental System Reconciling Deterministic and Stochastic Subjects Based on the System Complexity: 2. Practice and Test


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