Climate change impacts on the water balance of coastal and montane rainforests in northern Queensland, Australia

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 475, Issue , 2012, Pages 84-96

  Wallace, Jim ^a,b   McJannet, Dave ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canopy wetness; Climate change; Rainforest; Run off; Water balance

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CANOPY CONDITIONS; CANOPY WETNESS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; DOWNSTREAM FLOW; DRY SEASONS; FLOW REGIMES; FRESHWATER SPECIES; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; QUEENSLAND; RAINFOREST; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; WATER BALANCE; WET SEASON;

DROUGHT; LIFE CYCLE; RAIN; RUNOFF;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; EPIPHYTE; FLOW PATTERN; FRESHWATER; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; INTERCEPTION; MONTANE FOREST; MOSS; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; SEASONALITY; TRANSPIRATION; WATER BUDGET;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84870253759     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.09.032     Document Type: Article

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