Long-term growth and water balance predictions for a mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forest catchment subject to clear-felling and regeneration

Tree Physiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 221-232

  Vertessy, R A ^a,c   Hatton, T J ^a   Benyon, R G ^b,c   Dawes, W R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE WATER CORPORATION   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecohydrology; Forest growth; Modeling; Water yield

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; SORBUS;

EID: 0000750937     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/16.1-2.221     Document Type: Article

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