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Relationship between Forest Stand Condition and Water Balance in a Forested Basin

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Water dynamics in forest basins is highly complex. Although some investigations on long-term change in forest water balance following forest fires exist, limited information is available in long-term observation of forest watersheds composed of a single tree species and forest age. Therefore, a detailed water balance model, based on forest structure parameters using observation data from the literature, was developed to evaluate how forest structures, such as forest age, density, and tree height, affect the water balance of a forested watershed. It is suggested that the available water resources in Japanese cedar forests decline from young forest to age 100 years and then remain almost constant. Similar trends about the water balance in the forested watershed have been observed in existing studies, and the impact of aboveground areas, which have a significant effect on forest age, on the water balance appears to correspond to the results of this study, which were validated by the detailed model.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP20K04747, JP20K12284. I would like to thank K. Kanematsu of Chubu Forest Engineering Consultants and Ena Regional Agriculture and Forestry Office of Gifu Prefecture for providing Gaman-Sawa data.

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Kojima, T. (2022). Relationship between Forest Stand Condition and Water Balance in a Forested Basin. In: Li, F., Awaya, Y., Kageyama, K., Wei, Y. (eds) River Basin Environment: Evaluation, Management and Conservation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4070-5_11

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