Quantifying the hydrological responses to climate change in an intact forested small watershed in Southern China

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3736-3746

  Zhou, Guoyi ^a   Wei, Xiaohua ^b   Wu, Yiping ^c   Liu, Shuguang ^c   Huang, Yuhui ^a   Yan, Junhua ^a   Zhang, Deqiang ^a   Zhang, Qianmei ^a   Liu, Juxiu ^a   Meng, Ze ^a   Wang, Chunlin ^d   Chu, Guowei ^a   Liu, Shizhong ^a   Tang, Xuli ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Floods and droughts; Intact watershed; Long term study; Precipitation pattern; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; STORM; STREAMFLOW; UNCONFINED AQUIFER; WATER TABLE; WATERSHED;

CHINA; DINGHUSHAN BIOSPHERE RESERVE; GUANGDONG;

EID: 80054681424     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02499.x     Document Type: Article

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