Catchment hydrological responses to forest harvest amount and spatial pattern

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Abdelnour, Alex ^a   Stieglitz, Marc ^a,b   Pan, Feifei ^a,c   Mckane, Robert ^d  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; ECO-HYDROLOGY; FOREST HARVEST; FORESTED CATCHMENTS; HILLSLOPES; HYDROLOGICAL CONTROLS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND MANAGEMENTS; LINEAR RATE; NEW MODEL; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; POSTHARVEST; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STREAM CHANNELS; STREAM DISCHARGE; STUDY SITES;

FORESTRY; HARVESTING; PROCESS CONTROL; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW;

CATCHMENTS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENT; CLEARCUTTING; DISCHARGE; ECOHYDROLOGY; FORESTRY PRACTICE; HARVESTING; HILLSLOPE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; WATERSHED;

FORESTRY; HARVESTING; PROCESS CONTROL; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

EID: 80053345922     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010165     Document Type: Article

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