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The impact of bushfires on water yield from south-east Australia's ash forests

Date

Authors

Brookhouse, Matthew

Roderick, Michael

Farquhar, Graham

Publisher

American Geophysical Union

Abstract

Widespread disturbance within forested catchments typically increases runoff. However, following widespread fire in 1939 throughout south-east Australia, Kuczera (1987) reported persistent reductions in runoff that were attributed to increased evapotransp

Keywords

Keywords: Calibration periods; Forested catchments; Kuczera; MDB; Melbourne; Murray-darling basins (MDB); Relative reduction; Water yield; Calibration; Catchments; Reforestation; Stream flow; Water supply; Runoff; calibration; catchment; evapotranspiration; fire be Kuczera; MDB; Melbourne; runoff; stream flow; water yield

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/55017

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Water Resources Research

Type

Journal article

Access Statement

Open Access

DOI

10.1002/wrcr.20351

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