Forest influences on climate and water resources at the landscape to regional scale

Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 309-334

  Sun, Ge ^a   Liu, Yongqiang ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forest hydrology; Micrometeorology; Water resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905696160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6530-6_15     Document Type: Chapter

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