Runoff response to climate warming and forest disturbance in a mid-mountain basin

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3320-3342

  Langhammer, Jakub ^a   Su, Ye ^a   Bernsteinová, Jana ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b DHI as   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Baseflow; Climate warming; Forest disturbance; Low flows; Peak flows; Runoff variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; STORMS;

BASEFLOWS; CLIMATE WARMING; FOREST DISTURBANCES; LOW FLOW; PEAK FLOWS;

RUNOFF;

BASEFLOW; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HEADWATER; KRIGING; LOW FLOW; PEAK FLOW; RUNOFF; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STORM;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTS; HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; SEASONAL VARIATION;

BOHEMIAN FOREST; BOHEMIAN MASSIF; CZECH REPUBLIC; PLZENSKY; VYDRA BASIN;

SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84939446484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7073320     Document Type: Article

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