Regional annual water yield from forest lands and its response to potential deforestation across the southeastern United States

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 308, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 258-268

  Sun, G ^a   McNulty, S G ^a   Lu, J ^a   Amatya, D M ^b   Liang, Y ^c   Kolka, R K ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c WRIME Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Deforestation; Evapotranspiration; Forest hydrology; Hydrologic modeling; Water yield

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DEFORESTATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WETLANDS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION MODELS; LAND COVER; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WATER YIELD;

WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE;

DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; LAND USE; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION; TRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY; WETLANDS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20144378875     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.11.021     Document Type: Article

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