Climatic and human influences on groundwater in low atolls

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 581-590

  White, Ian ^a   Falkland, Tony ^h   Metutera, Taboia ^c   Metai, Eita ^d   Overmars, Marc ^e   Perez, Pascal ^f,g   Dray, Anne ^f,g   Falkland, A C ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Ecowise Environmental Australia   (Australia)

^c Public Utilities Board   (Kiribati)

^d Ministry of Public Works and Utilities   (Kiribati)

^e South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission   (Fiji)

^f CIRAD   (France)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; DRAWDOWN; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SOIL WATER; VADOSE ZONE; WATER SUPPLY;

KIRIBATI; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; TARAWA;

ANTHOZOA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34548455447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2006.0092     Document Type: Article

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