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Natural heterogeneities occur across a range of spatial scales from small plots to the globe, but dominate hydrological responses over a narrower spectrum, as already described in Chapt. D.1. 1f the river basin scale is defined spatially as spanning areas in the range of 102 to 105 km2, then the conceptual depiction in Fig. D.96 shows that neither soil nor local topography is the dominant natural hydrological driver at this scale. On the other hand, physiography, Vegetation, regional climate, the waterscape and, to some extent, macro-climate become key variables.
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Schulze, R.E. (2004). River Basin Responses to Global Change and Anthropogenic Impacts. In: Kabat, P., et al. Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate. Global Change — The IGBP Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18948-7_32
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