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Credit: Lina DiGregorio

Credit: Lina DiGregorio

Cross-site comparisons reveal varying long term trends in nitrogen exports, and varying responses to warming trends. Although theory predicts that streamflow should recover quickly after disturbance, paired watershed comparisons found decreases in summer flow (relative to undisturbed watersheds) in regenerating post-harvest forests 25 to 45 years old.

 

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  1. Argerich, A and Johnson, SL et al. 2013. Trends in stream nitrogen concentrations for forested reference catchments across the USA. Environmental Research Letters. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014039
  2. Jones, JA et al. 2012. Ecosystem processes and human influences regulate streamflow response to climate change at long-term ecological research sites. BioScience. doi: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.10
  3. Perry, TD and Jones, JA. 2017. Summer streamflow deficits from regenerating Douglas-fir forest in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Ecohydrology. doi: 10.1002/eco.1790

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Posted:  July 6, 2020