Large rivers in the anthropocene: Insights and tools for understanding climatic, land use, and reservoir influences

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3641-3646

  Habersack, Helmut ^a   Haspel, Daniel ^a   Kondolf, Mathias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

human impacts; land use; large rivers

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE; RESERVOIRS (WATER); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GROWING BODIES; HUMAN IMPACT; INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS; LAND-USE CHANGE; LARGE RIVERS; NATURAL FLUXES; NEW APPROACHES; RIVER SYSTEMS;

RIVERS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE; RIVER BASIN; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER;

EID: 84901384691     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014731     Document Type: Article

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