“…As such, thresholds can be used as a classification tool to better conceptualize how runoff response behaves under a range of conditions (Ali et al, , 2015. Moreover, thresholds have been found in the relationship between different variables, including soil moisture and streamflow (e.g., Zehe et al, 2010;Radatz et al, 2013), soil moisture and runoff ratios (James and Roulet, 2007), soil moisture and shallow groundwater (Latron and Gallart, 2008), subsurface stormflow and rainfall McDonnell, 2006a, 2006b;McGuire 2010a, 2010b), runoff ratios and precipitation intensity (Lehmann et al, 2007;Radatz et al, 2013), and a combination of antecedent soil moisture plus rainfall and stormflow McGuire 2010a, 2010b;Fu et al, 2013;Farrick and Branfireun, 2014). Different types of hydrological thresholds have been observed and described at RVC and its subcatchments.…”