Spatial scale dependence of ecohydrologically mediated water balance partitioning: A synthesis framework for catchment ecohydrology

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Thompson, Sally E ^a,c   Harman, Ciaran J ^b   Troch, Peter A ^a   Brooks, Paul D ^a   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT PROPERTIES; CATCHMENT SCALE; CATCHMENT WATER BALANCE; COMPLEX FLOW; ECO-HYDROLOGY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FLOW PATH; LATERAL DRAINAGE; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; RESEARCH AGENDA; SCALE DEPENDENCE; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SIMPLE NETWORKS; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL SCALE; THEORETICAL APPROACH; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION PATTERN; VEGETATION RESPONSE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER BALANCE;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RUNOFF; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOLOGY; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CATCHMENTS;

ARIDITY; CATCHMENT; DRAINAGE; ECOHYDROLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOPOLOGY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 79957460573     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009998     Document Type: Article

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