Forests and Their Hydrological Effects in Mediterranean Mountains
The Case of the Central Spanish Pyrenees
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13908236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | María Pilar Serrano-Muela, Noemí Lana‐renault (0000-0002-0272-2504, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, corresponding author), Noemí Lana-Renault, Estela Nadal‐romero (0000-0002-4651-7828, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, corresponding author), Estela Nadal-Romero, D Regüés (0000-0003-3232-0300, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, corresponding author), Jérôme Latron (0000-0003-3253-6734, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, corresponding author), C Martí‐Bono (Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, corresponding author), Carlos Martí-Bono, Santiago Beguería (0000-0002-8535-817X, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, corresponding author), Jose Maria Garcia-Ruiz |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3/4 |
| Pages | 279-285 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mountain Research and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0276-4741 • E-ISSN: 1994-7151 |
| Publisher | International Mountain Society (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.1659/mrd.0876 |
| OpenAlex | W1859524238 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article considers the effects of forests on the hydrology of a Mediterranean mountain area. Variations of climate factors, discharge, interception, and water table depth in the San Salvador forested experimental catchment in the Central Spanish Pyrenees were studied and the results compared with those from two deforested catchments. The hydrological response of the San Salvador catchment had the following properties: 1) it had both smaller peak flows and smaller low flows than the deforested catchments; 2) most rainstorm events produced almost no discharge response; 3) the intensity of precipitation had no influence on the magnitude of peak flows; and 4) depth to the water table was the most important factor in the relationship between precipitation and discharge. These results confirm that forest conservation reduces floods and soil erosion, particularly on steep slopes
Climate change · Drainage basin · Erosion · Geography · Geomorphology · Groundwater · Hydrology (agriculture · Interception · Mediterranean climate · Physical geography · Precipitation · Water table · Environmental Science · Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes · Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies · Soil erosion and sediment transport · Ecology · Geology
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| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |