Water-Soil-Vegetation Nexus and Climate Change

Xixi Wang is an Associate Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Xixi’s current areas of research focus on effects of climate change versus human activity on water resources, water-soil-vegetation nexus and equilibrium in changing climate, and watershed hydrology and stormwater management. Xixi has served at the Principal Investigator on several research grants focused on water-soil-vegetation nexus and spatiotemporal variations of precipitation as influenced by nonstationary climate. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed research papers, books, and book chapters, including several on precipitation trend and frequency analyses. He earned his bachelor’s (1989) and master’s (1993) degrees in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering from Tsinghua University, and holds a doctoral (2001) degree in Agricultural Engineering from Iowa State University. Xixi has been a registered professional engineer in North Dakota (#5145) since 2003 and Texas (#99798) between 2007 and 2011.

1. Editorial Comment 2. Water Availability and Shortage 3. Topsoil Characteristics and Loss 4. Vegetation Dynamics 5. Impacts of Climate Change 6. Overall Conclusions and Discussion