Long-term variability in the water budget and its controls in an oak-dominated temperate forest

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 6054-6066

  Xie, Jing ^a,b   Sun, Ge ^c   Chu, Hou Sen ^b   Liu, Junguo ^a   Mcnulty, Steven G ^c   Noormets, Asko ^d   John, Ranjeet ^b   Ouyang, Zutao ^b   Zha, Tianshan ^a   Li, Haitao ^e   Guan, Wenbin ^a   Chen, Jiquan ^b,f  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Climatic warming; Eddy covariance; Evapotranspiration; Interannual and seasonal variability; Temperate deciduous forest; Water budget

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATIC WARMING; EDDY COVARIANCE; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; WATER BUDGET;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

CLIMATES; FORESTS; WATER;

EID: 84914105237     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10079     Document Type: Article

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