Water balance of a burned and unburned forested boreal peatland

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 5954-5964

  Thompson, Dan K ^a,c   Benscoter, Brian W ^b   Waddington, James M ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Boreal; Peatlands; Water balance; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FIRES; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; PEAT; TRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY; WETLANDS;

ALBERTA; BOREAL; PEAT LAND; WATER BALANCE; WILDFIRE;

SURFACE RESISTANCE;

EVAPORATION; FOREST FIRES; WATER;

EID: 84920276679     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10074     Document Type: Article

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