Global pattern for the effect of climate and land cover on water yield

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhou, Guoyi ^a   Wei, Xiaohua ^b   Chen, Xiuzhi ^a   Zhou, Ping ^c   Liu, Xiaodong ^a   Xiao, Yin ^a   Sun, Ge ^d   Scott, David F ^b   Zhou, Shuyidan ^e   Han, Liusheng ^f   Su, Yongxian ^f  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c GUANGDONG ACADEMY OF FORESTRY   (China)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND COVER; WATER RESOURCE; WATER RETENTION; WATER YIELD; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FUH EQUATION; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PRECIPITATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED;

EID: 84986563049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6918     Document Type: Article

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