Impacts of fire on forest age and runoff in mountain ash forests

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 483-492

  Wood, Stephen A ^a   Beringer, Jason ^a   Hutley, Lindsay B ^b   McGuire, A David ^c   Van Dijk, Albert ^d   Kilinc, Musa ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eddy covariance; Eucalyptus regnans; Sap flow; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CATCHMENTS; FIRES; LANDFORMS; REUSABILITY; RUNOFF; WATER SUPPLY;

CHRONOSEQUENCE; EDDY COVARIANCE; EDDY COVARIANCE SYSTEMS; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (ET); FLOW MEASUREMENTS; FOREST AGE; FORESTED CATCHMENTS; MOUNTAIN ASH; SAP FLOW; STAND AGE; TRANSPIRATION; UNDERSTOREY; WATER USES;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

AGE STRUCTURE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVERGREEN FOREST; FIRE; FORESTED CATCHMENT; OVERSTORY; RUNOFF; SAP FLOW; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; SORBUS;

EID: 49149085318     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP08120     Document Type: Article

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