New data for water losses from mature Sitka spruce plantations in temperate upland catchments

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 477-493

  Heal, K V ^a   Stidson, R T ^a   Dickey, C A ^a   Cape, J N ^b   Heal, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchment water balance; Cloudwater; Conifer forest; Evatranspiration; Interception; Stemflow; Throughfall; UK; Upland catchment; Water loss

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EVAPORATION; LAND USE; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAIN; SOILS; WATER;

AFFORESTATION; WATER LOSSES;

HYDROLOGY;

AFFORESTATION; CATCHMENT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INTERCEPTION; STEMFLOW; THROUGHFALL; WATER BUDGET;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 2942560332     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1623/hysj.49.3.477.54344     Document Type: Article

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