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Hydrological functions of tropical forests: not seeing the soil for the trees?
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In this article, a wide range of available scientific evidence with respect to the influence exerted by the presence or absence of a good forest cover on regional climate (rainfall), total and seasonal water yield (floods, low flows), as well as on different forms of erosion and catchment sediment yield under humid tropical conditions in general and in southeast Asia in particular.About:
This article is published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.The article was published on 2004-09-01. It has received 1410 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soil retrogression and degradation & Deforestation.read more
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The Nature and Value of Ecosystem Services: An Overview Highlighting Hydrologic Services
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the ecosystem functions responsible for producing terrestrial hydrologic services and use this context to lay out a blueprint for a more general ecosystem service assessment.
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Taking stock: A comparative analysis of payments for environmental services programs in developed and developing countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize the information presented, according to case characteristics with respect to design, costs, environmental effectiveness, and other outcomes, and conclude that user-financed PES programs were better targeted, more closely tailored to local conditions and needs, had better monitoring and a greater willingness to enforce conditionality, and had far fewer confounding side objectives than government-funded programs.
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The Efficiency of Payments for Environmental Services in Tropical Conservation
TL;DR: This work aims to demystify PES and clarify its scope for application as a tool for tropical conservation, focusing on the supply side of PES (i.e., how to convert PES funding into effective conservation on the ground), which until now has been widely neglected.
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Impacts of roads and linear clearings on tropical forests.
TL;DR: It is asserted that such impacts are often qualitatively and quantitatively different in tropical forests than in other ecosystems, and practical measures to reduce the negative impacts of roads and other linear infrastructure on tropical species are highlighted.
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Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica
TL;DR: Costa Rica pioneered the use of the payments for environmental services (PES) approach in developing countries by establishing a formal, countrywide program of payments, the PSA program as discussed by the authors.
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A review of catchment experiments to determine the effect of vegetation changes on water yield and evapotranspiration
J.M. Bosch,J.D. Hewlett +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a summary and review of 94 catchment experiments shows that accumulated information on the effect of vegetation changes on water yield can be used for practical purposes, since no experiments, with the exception of perhaps one, have resulted in reductions in water yield with reductions in cover, or increases in yield, with increases in cover.
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Soil Erosion and Conservation
TL;DR: In this article, a review of worldwide land degradation problems is presented, focusing on delineating and estimating the magnitude of soil erosion, quantifying erosion and sedimentation impacts on land productivity, establishing quantitative values for erosion-causing parameters, and implementing global and regional soil and water conservation programs.
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A comprehensive meteorological modeling system?RAMS
Roger A. Pielke,William R. Cotton,Robert L. Walko,Craig J. Tremback,W. A. Lyons,Lewis D. Grasso,Melville E. Nicholls,M. D. Moran,Douglas A. Wesley,T. J. Lee,J. H. Copeland +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a range of applications of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS), a comprehensive mesoscale meterological modeling system, are discussed, including large eddy simulations (LES) and simulations of thunderstorms, cumulus fields, mesoscales, convective systems, mid-latitude cirrus clouds, winter storms, mechanically and thermally-forced meso-scale systems, and mesoscopic atmospheric disperision.
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The prediction of hillslope flow paths for distributed hydrological modelling using digital terrain models
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined some of the problems of deriving flow pathways from raster digital terrain data in the context of hydrological predictions using TOPMODEL and proposed a strategy for the case where downslope subsurface flow pathways may deviate from those indicated by the surface topography.
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Gully erosion and environmental change: importance and research needs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the need for monitoring, experimental and modelling studies of gully erosion as a basis for predicting the effects of environmental change (climatic and land use changes) on gully degradation rates.
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