Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Water Natural Resources

Water natural resources comprise the planet's freshwater stocks and flows, including surface water in rivers, lakes, and wetlands, groundwater held in aquifers, soil moisture, and the broader hydrological cycle that replenishes them. These resources sustain drinking-water supply, agriculture and irrigation, industry…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 6 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 22× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2637-6075 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Water natural resources comprise the planet's freshwater stocks and flows, including surface water in rivers, lakes, and wetlands, groundwater held in aquifers, soil moisture, and the broader hydrological cycle that replenishes them. These resources sustain drinking-water supply, agriculture and irrigation, industry, energy generation, and the functioning of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are characterized by quantity, renewal rate, spatial and seasonal variability, and quality, the last shaped by natural geochemistry and by anthropogenic loading of nutrients, sediments, and contaminants. Sustainable management seeks to balance abstraction against recharge, protect water quality, and maintain the ecological flows that wetlands and riparian habitats require. Wetland systems illustrate the coupling of water quantity and quality, where replenishment from a major river can change the chemistry and ecological status of a lake, while assessments of metal contamination in waterside vegetation show how degraded water resources propagate through food webs. Agricultural practices, including permaculture and soil-conserving cultivation, influence infiltration, runoff, and the efficiency with which crops use available water, linking water security to land management and food production. Effective stewardship integrates monitoring, catchment protection, equitable allocation, and the social and institutional arrangements that govern access, recognizing water as a shared and finite environmental asset.

Research published in this journal

6 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 6 articles above have been cited 22 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Plant and Animal Ecology (ISSN 2637-6075).

Journal editorial board
Dimitris Zianis · Greece Jasmin Mantilla Contreras · Germany Narcisa Vrinceanu · Romania

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