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Determinants of the Forest-Water Relationship

Formally Refereed
Authors: Steve G. McNulty, Emma Archer, Mark Gush, Meine van Noordwojk, David Ellison, Juan A. Blanco, Jianchu Xu, Kevin Bishop, Xiaohua adam) Wei, Bhaskar Vira, Irene F. Creed, Aditi Mukherji, Aurelia Baca, Jacqueline Serran, Richard J. Harper, David Aldred, Caroline A. Sullivan
Year: 2018
Type: Book Chapter
Station: Southern Research Station
Source: In: Forest and Water on a Changing Planet: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Governance Opportunities: A Global Assessment Report (I.F. Creed and M. van Noordwijk, eds.). IUFRO World Series

Abstract

As outlined in Chapter 2, our analysis of forest-water relations addresses four important subsystems of a linked planetary social-ecological system: climate, forests, water and people. In this chapter, we consider how each of these subsystems is changing (trend) and what is causing the change (’determinant’). We discuss the critical determinants of change in forests as they relate to water quality and quantity. Chapter 4 then presents the impacts of these changes on water quality and quality.

Citation

McNulty, Steve G.; Archer, Emma; Gush, Mark; van Noordwojk, Meine; Ellison, David; Blanco, Juan A.; Xu, Jianchu; Bishop, Kevin; Wei, Xiaohua (adam); Vira, Bhaskar; Creed, Irene F.; Mukherji, Aditi; Baca, Aurelia; Serran, Jacqueline; Harper, Richard J.; Aldred, David; Sullivan, Caroline A. 2018. Determinants of the Forest-Water Relationship. In: Forest and Water on a Changing Planet: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Governance Opportunities: A Global Assessment Report (I.F. Creed and M. van Noordwijk, eds.). IUFRO World Series Volume 38. p. 61- 78. Vienna.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/56953