Can forest management be used to sustain water-based ecosystem services in the face of climate change?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2049-2067

  Ford, Chelcy R ^a   Laseter, Stephanie H ^a   Swank, Wayne T ^a   Vose, James M ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Coweeta basin; Drought risk; Forest management; Land use; Paired watershed; Precipitation; Southern Appalachians; Streamflow; USA; Warming; Water supply

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL WATER; STREAMFLOW; VULNERABILITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

APPALACHIAN REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WATER MOVEMENTS;

APPALACHIANS; COWEETA BASIN; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051978429     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2246.1     Document Type: Article

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