Water use by terrestrial ecosystems: Temporal variability in rainforest and agricultural contributions to evapotranspiration in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lathuillière, Michael J ^a   Johnson, Mark S ^a   Donner, Simon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

agricultural expansion; deforestation; evapotranspiration; FAO56; green water; land use change; Mato Grosso; MOD16; MODIS; PenmanMonteith; water footprint; water productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863525025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024024     Document Type: Article

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