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Science 6 September 1974:
Vol. 185. no. 4154, pp. 857 - 859
DOI: 10.1126/science.185.4154.857
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Streamflow Greatly Reduced by Converting Deciduous Hardwood Stands to Pine

Wayne T. Swank 1 and James E. Douglass 1

1 Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Franklin, North Carolina 28734

Fifteen years after two experimental watersheds in the southern Appalachians had been converted from a mature deciduous hardwood cover to white pine, annual streamflow was reduced about 20 centimeters (20 percent) below that expected for the hardwood cover. Streamflow was reduced during every month, with the largest monthly reductions (1.5 to 3.5 centimeters) occurring in the dormant and early growing seasons.


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