Projected risks to groundwater-dependent terrestrial vegetation caused by changing climate and groundwater abstraction in the Central Perth Basin, Western Australia

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 5513-5529

  Barron, Olga ^a   Froend, Ray ^b   Hodgson, Geoff ^a   Ali, Riasat ^a   Dawes, Warrick ^a   Davies, Phil ^a   Mcfarlane, Don ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global climate model; Groundwater dependent ecosystem; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE GASES; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; GROUNDWATER DEPENDENT ECOSYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER MODELING; GROUNDWATER MODELLING; GROUNDWATER-DEPENDENT VEGETATIONS; TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84908023945     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10014     Document Type: Article

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