Hydrology: Catchment vegetation and runoff

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 837-844

  Peel, Murray C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catchment vegetation; Climate change; Paired catchments; Runoff; Top down models

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; RUNOFF; VEGETATION;

EID: 70749102287     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133309350122     Document Type: Article

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