Journal article
Reforestation reduces streamflow in the southeastern United States
Journal of soil and water conservation, Vol.42(4), pp.274-276
07/01/1987
Abstract
Reforestation in the southeastern United States is reducing streamflow over large areas of land. Ten large river basins encompassing
54,000 km 2 had 10% to 28% of their respective areas reforested between 1919 and 1967. This reforestation reduced water yields in the
river basins 3 cm to 10 cm. These reductions constituted a 4% to 21% decline in annual stream discharge, a decline that was
statistically significant in a majority of the basins. The streamflow reductions as a result of reforestation tended to be
greater during dry years then during wet years.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reforestation reduces streamflow in the southeastern United States
- Creators
- Stanley W. TrimbleFrank H. Weirich
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of soil and water conservation, Vol.42(4), pp.274-276
- Publisher
- Soil and Water Conservation Society
- ISSN
- 0022-4561
- eISSN
- 1941-3300
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/1987
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering; Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984229174602771
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