Partitioning the effects of pine plantations and climate variability on runoff from a large catchment in southeastern Australia

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Tuteja, Narendra Kumar ^a,b   Vaze, Jai ^b,c   Teng, Jin ^b,c   Mutendeudzi, Martin ^d  

^a OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^b EWATER COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c NSW Department of Water and Energy (DWE)   (Australia)

^d BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAIN;

ECOHYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LUMPED CATCHMENT; PINE PLANTATIONS;

RUNOFF;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAIN; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOHYDROLOGY; LAND USE CHANGE; PASTURE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RUNOFF; TREE PLANTING; WOODY PLANT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34848831161     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005016     Document Type: Article

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