Reply to comment by Birkinshaw on "a paradigm shift in understanding and quantifying the effects of forest harvesting on floods in snow environments"

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2769-2774

  Alila, Younes ^a   Green, Kim C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

flood frequency; floods; forests; stochastic hydrology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894652486     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014198     Document Type: Article

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