Land-cover changes and recent hydrological evolution in the Duero Basin (Spain)

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-33

  Morán Tejeda, Enrique ^a   Ceballos Barbancho, Antonio ^b   Llorente Pinto, José Manuel ^b   López Moreno, Juan Ignacio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Duero Basin; Headwaters; Land cover change; Precipitation; Regression residuals; Revegetation; Runoff

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856954760     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-011-0236-7     Document Type: Article

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