Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-981-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-981-2017
Research article
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16 Feb 2017
Research article |  | 16 Feb 2017

Water yield following forest–grass–forest transitions

Katherine J. Elliott, Peter V. Caldwell, Steven T. Brantley, Chelcy F. Miniat, James M. Vose, and Wayne T. Swank

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Our long-term results are relevant to land areas that are in pasture and those that have reverted back to forests. We found that within a deciduous forest, species identity matters in terms of how much precipitation leaves the watershed as evapotranspiration versus water yield. We demonstrate that a shift in tree species composition from species with ring-porous xylem to species with diffuse-porous xylem can increase water use, and in turn, produce a long-term reduction in water yield.