Quantifying the benefits of urban forest systems as a component of the green infrastructure stormwater treatment network

Ecohydrology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Kuehler, Eric ^a   Hathaway, Jon ^b   Tirpak, Andrew ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

green infrastructure; hydrology; interception; stemflow; throughfall; transpiration; tree; urban forest

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; RAIN; RUNOFF; SATELLITE INTERCEPTION; SOILS; STORM SEWERS; STORMS; TRANSPIRATION; WATERSHEDS;

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE; STEMFLOW; THROUGHFALL; TREE; URBAN FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INFRASTRUCTURE; INTERCEPTION; RUNOFF; STEMFLOW; STORMWATER; THROUGHFALL; TRANSPIRATION; TREE; URBAN FORESTRY; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 85018748765     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1813     Document Type: Review

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