Comment on Wood et al. 2008, 'Impacts of fire on forest age and runoff in mountain ash forests'

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1187-1191

  Benyon, Richard ^a   Haydon, Shane ^b   Vertessy, Rob ^c   Hatton, Tom ^d   Kuczera, George ^e   Feikema, Paul ^a   Lane, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE WATER CORPORATION   (Australia)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

eddy covariance; Eucalyptus regnans; evapotranspiration; rainfall; sap flow; transpiration

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL TRANSPIRATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; EVAPORATION FROM THE FOREST FLOOR; FOREST AGE; HEAT PULSE; MELBOURNE; MOUNTAIN ASH; OLD-GROWTH; RAINFALL; RAINFALL INTERCEPTION; SAP FLOW;

ERRORS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LIGHT VELOCITY; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WOOD;

TRANSPIRATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EDDY COVARIANCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVERGREEN TREE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INTERCEPTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METEOROLOGY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SAP FLOW; TRANSPIRATION; VELOCITY;

AGING; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; EVAPORATION; FOREST FIRES; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; RUNOFF; TRANSPIRATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VICTORIA; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA]; WALLABY CREEK;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; SORBUS;

EID: 78649300923     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP10141     Document Type: Review

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