Hydrological effects of forest transpiration loss in bark beetle-impacted watersheds

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 481-486

  Bearup, Lindsay A ^a   Maxwell, Reed M ^a   Clow, David W ^b   McCray, John E ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MORTALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPIRATION; VULNERABILITY; WATER BUDGET; WATERSHED;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84901624288     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2198     Document Type: Article

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