Forest harvesting effects on the magnitude and frequency of peak flows can increase with return period

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kura, Piotr K ^a,b   Alila, Younes ^a   Weiler, Markus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NORTHWEST HYDRAULIC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; CURRENT LEVELS; FOREST HARVESTING; MANAGEMENT SCHEME; PAIRED WATERSHEDS; PEAK FLOWS; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; RETURN PERIODS; RUNOFF GENERATION;

CATCHMENTS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; SNOW; WATERSHEDS;

HARVESTING;

CATCHMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HARVESTING; MAGNITUDE; PEAK FLOW; RESEARCH WORK; ROAD; RUNOFF; SNOW COVER; WATERSHED;

FORESTRY; FREQUENCY; HARVESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUNOFF; SNOW; WATER SHEDS;

EID: 84856622925     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010705     Document Type: Article

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