Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: Social views and environmental processes

Ecology and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Merten, Jennifer ^a   Röll, Alexander ^a   Guillaume, Thomas ^a   Meijide, Ana ^a   Tarigan, Suria ^b   Agusta, Herdhata ^b   Dislich, Claudia ^a   Dittrich, Christoph ^a   Faust, Heiko ^a   Gunawan, Dodo ^c   Hein, Jonas ^d   Hendrayanto, A ^b   Knohl, Alexander ^a   Kuzyakov, Yakov ^a   Wiegand, Kerstin ^a   Hölscher, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics   (Indonesia)

^d GERMAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eco hydrology; Environmental perception; Erosion; Evapotranspiration; Forest; Land use change; Runoff; Rural water supply; Streamflow; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

ECOHYDROLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; PERCEPTION; PLANTATION; RUNOFF; SOIL EROSION; STREAMFLOW; TRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

INDONESIA; JAMBI [INDONESIA]; NORTH SUMATRA;

ELAEIS;

EID: 84976586872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-08214-210205     Document Type: Article

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