The long term effects of thinning treatments on vegetation structure and water yield

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 310, Issue , 2013, Pages 983-993

  Hawthorne, Sandra N D ^a   Lane, Patrick N J ^a   Bren, Leon J ^a   Sims, Neil C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

LiDAR; Thinning; Vegetation structure; Water yield

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL WATER YIELDS; FOREST INVENTORY DATA; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; RUNOFF GENERATION PROCESS; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA; THINNING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER YIELD;

CATCHMENTS; FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; RUNOFF; WATER SUPPLY;

VEGETATION;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LIDAR; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAGNITUDE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RUNOFF; THINNING; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY; PLANTS; RADAR; RUNOFF; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; SORBUS;

EID: 84888128718     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.09.046     Document Type: Article

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