The impact of global land-cover change on the terrestrial water cycle

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 385-390

  Sterling, Shannon M ^a,b   Ducharne, Agnès ^b   Polcher, Jan ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DROUGHT STRESS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOOD FREQUENCY; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; RUNOFF;

EID: 84875726270     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1690     Document Type: Article

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