Trees have been around for more than 370 million years, and today there are about 80 thousand
spe... more Trees have been around for more than 370 million years, and today there are about 80 thousand species of them, occupying 3.5 billion hectares worldwide, including 250 million ha of commercial plantations. While forests can provide tremendous environmental, social, and economic benefits to nations, they also affect the hydrologic cycle in different ways. As the demand for water grows and local precipitation patterns change due to global warming, plantation forestry has encountered an increasing number of water-related conflicts worldwide. This document provides a country-by-country summary of the current state of knowledge on the relationship between forest management and water resources. Based on available research publications, the Editor-in-Chief of this document contacted local scientists from countries where the impact of forest management on water resources is an issue, inviting them to submit a chapter.
Streamflow and its storm-flow elements in four catchments were analyzed by the paired catchment m... more Streamflow and its storm-flow elements in four catchments were analyzed by the paired catchment method for a response to fire. Prior to burning two of the catchments were vegetated with over-mature fynbos (the indigenous scrub vegetation of the southwestern Cape, South Africa), one was afforested with Pinus radiata and the fourth with Eucalyptus fastigata. One of the fynbos catchments was
Research results on the effects of land cover change on water resources vary greatly and the topi... more Research results on the effects of land cover change on water resources vary greatly and the topic remains controversial. Here we use published data worldwide to examine the validity of Fuh's equation, which relates annual water yield (R) to a wetness index (precipitation/potential evapotranspiration; P/PET) and watershed characteristics (m). We identify two critical values at P/PET=1 and m=2. m plays a more important role than P/PET when m<2, and a lesser role when…
... South-western Cape Forestry Areas? AJArmstrong1 , HJ van Hensbergen&amp;#x27;, DF Scott&a... more ... South-western Cape Forestry Areas? AJArmstrong1 , HJ van Hensbergen&amp;#x27;, DF Scott&amp;quot; and SJ Milton3 ... The forest is also an &amp;quot;inhospitable sea&amp;quot; for the rodent species, but not to all the ant species, recorded in the fynbos &amp;quot;islands&amp;quot; (Midgley and Bond, 1990). ...
Trees have been around for more than 370 million years, and today there are about 80 thousand
spe... more Trees have been around for more than 370 million years, and today there are about 80 thousand species of them, occupying 3.5 billion hectares worldwide, including 250 million ha of commercial plantations. While forests can provide tremendous environmental, social, and economic benefits to nations, they also affect the hydrologic cycle in different ways. As the demand for water grows and local precipitation patterns change due to global warming, plantation forestry has encountered an increasing number of water-related conflicts worldwide. This document provides a country-by-country summary of the current state of knowledge on the relationship between forest management and water resources. Based on available research publications, the Editor-in-Chief of this document contacted local scientists from countries where the impact of forest management on water resources is an issue, inviting them to submit a chapter.
Streamflow and its storm-flow elements in four catchments were analyzed by the paired catchment m... more Streamflow and its storm-flow elements in four catchments were analyzed by the paired catchment method for a response to fire. Prior to burning two of the catchments were vegetated with over-mature fynbos (the indigenous scrub vegetation of the southwestern Cape, South Africa), one was afforested with Pinus radiata and the fourth with Eucalyptus fastigata. One of the fynbos catchments was
Research results on the effects of land cover change on water resources vary greatly and the topi... more Research results on the effects of land cover change on water resources vary greatly and the topic remains controversial. Here we use published data worldwide to examine the validity of Fuh's equation, which relates annual water yield (R) to a wetness index (precipitation/potential evapotranspiration; P/PET) and watershed characteristics (m). We identify two critical values at P/PET=1 and m=2. m plays a more important role than P/PET when m<2, and a lesser role when…
... South-western Cape Forestry Areas? AJArmstrong1 , HJ van Hensbergen&amp;#x27;, DF Scott&a... more ... South-western Cape Forestry Areas? AJArmstrong1 , HJ van Hensbergen&amp;#x27;, DF Scott&amp;quot; and SJ Milton3 ... The forest is also an &amp;quot;inhospitable sea&amp;quot; for the rodent species, but not to all the ant species, recorded in the fynbos &amp;quot;islands&amp;quot; (Midgley and Bond, 1990). ...
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species of them, occupying 3.5 billion hectares worldwide, including 250 million ha of commercial
plantations. While forests can provide tremendous environmental, social, and economic benefits to
nations, they also affect the hydrologic cycle in different ways. As the demand for water grows and
local precipitation patterns change due to global warming, plantation forestry has encountered an
increasing number of water-related conflicts worldwide.
This document provides a country-by-country summary of the current state of knowledge on the
relationship between forest management and water resources. Based on available research
publications, the Editor-in-Chief of this document contacted local scientists from countries where
the impact of forest management on water resources is an issue, inviting them to submit a chapter.
species of them, occupying 3.5 billion hectares worldwide, including 250 million ha of commercial
plantations. While forests can provide tremendous environmental, social, and economic benefits to
nations, they also affect the hydrologic cycle in different ways. As the demand for water grows and
local precipitation patterns change due to global warming, plantation forestry has encountered an
increasing number of water-related conflicts worldwide.
This document provides a country-by-country summary of the current state of knowledge on the
relationship between forest management and water resources. Based on available research
publications, the Editor-in-Chief of this document contacted local scientists from countries where
the impact of forest management on water resources is an issue, inviting them to submit a chapter.