Resistance and resilience to droughts : hydropedological controls on catchment storage and run-off response

Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Jonathan Dick, Maria Blumstock, Claire Tunaley and Jason Lessels for assistance with the field work and Audrey Innes for lab sample preparation. Climatic data were provided by Iain Malcolm and Marine Scotland Fisheries at the Freshwater Lab, Pitlochry. Additional precipitation and temperature data were provided by the UK Meteorological Office and the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC). We are grateful for the careful and constructive comments of two anonymous reviewers that helped to improve an earlier version of this manuscript. The European Research Council ERC (project GA 335910) is thanked for funding.Peer reviewedPostprin

Storage dynamics in hydropedological units control hillslope connectivity, runoff generation, and the evolution of catchment transit time distributions

Acknowledgments We thank the European Research Council (ERC; project GA 335910 VEWA) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC; project NE/K000268/1) for funding. We would like to thank Konrad Piegat for invaluable help with the fieldwork. Iain Malcolm and staff at Marine Scotland (Pitlochry) are also thanked for the provision of data from the AWS. We also thank three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Water sources for root water uptake : Using stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen as a research tool in agricultural and agroforestry systems

DP was supported by the autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy [grant number B83G13000420003]; JG was supported by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland [grant reference: RIG008284] and the UK Natural Environment Research Council [grant numbers: NE/N007611/1 and NE/S009167/1].Peer reviewedPostprin

Weighted risk assessment of critical source areas for soil phosphorus losses through surface runoff mechanisms

This work was supported by the NERC QUADRAT DTP [grant number 2280708].Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Assessing land use influences on isotopic variability and stream water ages in urbanising rural catchments

Funding This work was supported by the Leverhulme Trust under Grant RPG-2018-375. Acknowledgements We are grateful to the Leverhulme ISOLAND project (RPG-2018-375) for funding and we are especially grateful to Dr A. Neill for his assistance with the creation of Figure 4.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Ecohydrological separation in wet, low energy northern environments? A preliminary assessment using different soil water extraction techniques

Funded by European Research Council ERC. Grant Number: project GA 335910 VEWA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The constructive comments and suggestions from two anonymous reviewers greatly improved an earlier version of this manuscript. Jon Dick, Jason Lesselsand Jane Bang Poulsen are thanked for assistance with data collection; Audrey Innes for sample preparation and assistance with the cryogenic extraction of water samples; Paula Craib for glassware design; Colleagues in Prof. J. Anderson’s lab for day-to-day assistance incryogenic extraction; Todd Dawson and Nathalie Schultz for providing information on extraction techniques and the analysis of vegetation water; Hedda Weitz for help with the centrifugation of soil samples;and Iain Malcolm and colleagues at the Marine Scotland Freshwater Lab for providing meteorological data. We thank Jason Newton and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) Mass Spectrometry Facility Laboratory in East Kilbride for theisotopic analyses of the xylem water samples. The European Research Council ERC (project GA 335910VEWA) is thanked for funding.Peer reviewedPostprin

The role of sampling strategy on apparent temporal stability of soil moisture under subtropical hydroclimatic conditions

Financial support for this research was provided through the joint China-UK Red Soil Critical Zone project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC: 41771263; 41571130053) and the United Kingdom Natural Environment Research Council (NE/N007611/1). Additional funding was provided by the “135 innovation project” from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS:ISSASIP1648). Special thanks go to the staff of the Ecological Experimental Station of Red Soil of the Institute of Soil Science of CAS.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Assessing the role of location and scale of Nature Based Solutions for the enhancement of low flows

Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge financial support from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (project NE/P010334/1) and Chivas Brothers via a CASE industrial studentship. Mark Wilkinson received funding from the Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services Division of the Scottish Government programme. Dr Luca Fabris and Dr Aaron Neill are thanked for advice on modelling and David Drummond, Dr Katya Dimitrova-Petrova, Martyn Roberts and Eva Loerke are thanked for assistance with fieldwork. Trevor Buckley and staff at the Glenlivet Distillery are thanked for on-site assistance and supply of data and abstraction records. We thank Audrey Innes for her support with the laboratory analysis. Finally, many thanks to DHI for providing the software for MIKE 11/MIKE SHE used in the hydrological simulations.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Surface Measure to Depth (SMeTD): a new low-budget system for 3D water temperature measurements for combining with UAV-based thermal infrared imagery

Acknowledgements This work was funded by the School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, and the Macaulay Development Trust. We would like to thank Dr. Katya Dimitrova Petrova, Dr. Irma Arts, Douglas Wardell-Johnson and Lucas Christie for their assistance in the field. Funding This work was funded by the School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, and the Macaulay Development Trust.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Using isotopes to understand the evolution of water ages in disturbed mixed land‐use catchments

Funding Information: Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen The Macaulay Development Trust Rural and Environment Sciences Analytical Services Division of the Scottish Government Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Grant Number: 70112 Royal Society. Grant Number: RG140402 Macaulay Development Trust and the School of Geosciences, University of AberdeenPeer reviewedPostprin