Lake and wetland ecosystem services measuring water storage and local climate regulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 3197-3223

  Wong, Christina P ^a,b   Jiang, Bo ^a,c   Bohn, Theodore J ^d   Lee, Kai N ^e,f   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^g   Ma, Dongchun ^a,h   Ouyang, Zhiyun ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHANGJIANG WATER RESOURCES COMMISSION   (China)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e The David and Lucile Packard Foundation   (United States)

^f WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Beijing Water Science and Technology Institute   (China)

Author keywords

ecological production functions; ecosystem services; lakes; sustainable development; urban ecology; wetlands

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAKES; MANAGERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WETLANDS;

ECOLOGICAL PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE; LAKE EVAPORATION; PROCESS-BASED MODELING; URBAN ECOLOGY; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS; WETLAND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SHALLOW WATER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; WATER STORAGE; WETLAND;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; YONGDING RIVER [CHINA];

EID: 85018614795     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019445     Document Type: Article

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