Research gaps in understanding flood changes at the catchment scale caused by changes in forest management, agricultural practices, artificial drainage, and terracing are identified. Potential strategies in addressing these gaps are proposed, such as complex systems approaches to link processes across time scales, long-term experiments on physical-chemical-biological process interactions, and a focus on connectivity and patterns across spatial scales. It is suggested that these strategies will stimulate new research that coherently addresses the issues across hydrology, soil and agricultural sciences, forest engineering, forest ecology, and geomorphology.

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Wallingford UK

Computational Science Center University of Vienna Vienna Austria

Department of Land and Water Resources Management Faculty of Civil Engineering Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Bratislava Slovakia

Department of Land Environment Agriculture and Forestry University of Padova Padua Italy

Department of Soil Science University of Kassel Kassel Germany

Division of Agronomy Department of Crop Sciences University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Tulln Austria

Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Rostock University Rostock Germany

Faculty of Science University of Hradec Králové Hradec Králové Czech Republic

IDAEA CSIC Barcelona Spain

Institute of Ecology University of Innsbruck Innsbruck Austria

Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management Vienna University of Technology Vienna Austria

Institute of Hydrology Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava Slovakia

Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel Kiel Germany

Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat Paris France

Laboratory for Landscape and Cultural Heritage University of Florence Florence Italy

Lancaster Environment Centre Lancaster University Lancaster UK

Professor Emeritus Institute of Forest Ecology University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna Austria

School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne UK

School of Geography University of Leeds Leeds UK

University of Bern Bern Switzerland

Wageningen Environmental Research Wageningen University and Research Wageningen Netherlands

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