Long term responses of streamflow following clearcutting and regrowth / Reactions a long terme du debit des cours d'eau apres coupe et repeuplement
Titel:
Long term responses of streamflow following clearcutting and regrowth / Reactions a long terme du debit des cours d'eau apres coupe et repeuplement
Auteur:
SWIFT, LLOYD W. SWANK, WAYNE T.
Verschenen in:
Hydrological sciences journal
Paginering:
Jaargang 26 (1981) nr. 3 pagina's 245-256
Jaar:
1981-09-01
Inhoud:
Long term changes in streamflow following forest cutting are presented for three experimental basins at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North Carolina, USA. Previous analyses have shown that, following forest cutting, streamflow increases and then declines with the logarithm of time as the forest regrows. Recent data indicate that the streamflow decline following cutting is related to vegetation regrowth, but the relationship is not a consistent function of simple stand measurements. The mixed hardwood forest of one basin was clearcut twice in the past 40 years. During the second regrowth period, streamflow increases after the first year were about one-half the increases at the same points in time after the first treatment. Concurrent with the second cutting, two other basins were cut whose mid-elevations are 400 m higher. The increases for the upper basins were similar, even though basal area was reduced by only 65% on one. Both streamflow increases were less than for either cutting on the lower basin. Variability of flow increases for the three concurrent treatments is similar and appears partly related to precipitation.
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