Projecting the hydrologic impacts of climate change on montane wetlands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Lee, Se Yeun ^a   Ryan, Maureen E ^a,b   Hamlet, Alan F ^a,c   Palen, Wendy J ^b   Lawler, Joshua J ^a   Halabisky, Meghan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYDROLOGY; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL PROPERTY; SUMMER; WETLAND; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

SOIL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; HUMANS; HYDROLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84947483961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136385     Document Type: Article

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