A conceptual model of water yield effects from beetle-induced tree death in snow-dominated lodgepole pine forests

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2048-2060

  Pugh, Evan ^a   Gordon, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetle infestation; Ecohydrology; Forest hydrology; Snow accumulation and melt; Tree death; Water yield

Indexed keywords

BARK BEETLE; ECO-HYDROLOGY; FOREST HYDROLOGIES; SNOW ACCUMULATION; TREE DEATH; WATER YIELD;

CATCHMENTS; SNOW; WATERSHEDS;

REFORESTATION;

BEETLE; CATCHMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOHYDROLOGY; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST DYNAMICS; HEADWATER; MORTALITY; RUNOFF; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW; TREE; VEGETATION COVER; WATER YIELD; WATERSHED;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

COLEOPTERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; HEXAPODA; PINUS CONTORTA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84879884500     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9312     Document Type: Article

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