Preliminary evaluation of the runoff processes in a remote montane cloud forest basin using Mixing Model Analysis and Mean Transit Time

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 3896-3910

  Crespo, Patricio ^a,b   Bücker, Amelie ^b   Feyen, Jan ^a   Vaché, Kellie B ^b,c   Frede, Hans Georg ^b   Breuer, Lutz ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE CUENCA   (Ecuador)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Andean cloud forest; Ecuador; Hydrological processes; Mean transit time; Mixing model analysis; Tracers

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; ECUADOR; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; MEAN TRANSIT TIME; MIXING MODELS;

CATCHMENTS; FORESTRY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

FORESTED CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MONTANE FOREST; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW; TRACER;

ECUADOR; FORESTS; HYDROLOGY; PROCESS CONTROL; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; TRACERS; WATER SHEDS;

ANDES; CORDILLERA REAL [ECUADOR]; ECUADOR;

FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 84862166990     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8382     Document Type: Article

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