Data from: Evapotranspiration is resilient in the face of land cover and climate change in a humid temperate catchment

Hamilton, Stephen K.; Hussain, M. Z.; Lowrie, Christopher; Basso, Bruno; Robertson, G. Philip

doi:10.5061/dryad.6fm52

Title: Data from: Evapotranspiration is resilient in the face of land cover and climate change in a humid temperate catchment

Abstract

In temperate humid catchments, evapotranspiration returns more than half of the annual precipitation to the atmosphere, thereby determining the balance available to recharge groundwaters and support stream flow and lake levels. Changes in evapotranspiration rates and therefore catchment hydrology could be driven by changes in land use or climate. Here we examine the catchment water balance over the past 50 y for a catchment in southwest Michigan covered by cropland, grassland, forest, and wetlands. Over the study period about 27% of the catchment has been abandoned from row-crop agriculture to perennial vegetation and about 20% of the catchment has reverted to deciduous forest, and the climate has warmed by 1.14°C. Despite these changes in land use, precipitation and stream discharge, and by inference catchment-scale evapotranspiration, have been stable over the study period. The remarkably stable rates of evapotranspirative water loss from the catchment across a period of significant land cover change suggest that rainfed annual crops and perennial vegetation do not differ greatly in evapotranspiration rates, and this is supported by measurements of evapotranspiration from various vegetation types based on soil water monitoring in the same catchment. Compensating changes in the other meteorological drivers of evaporative water demand besides airmore »« less

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Hamilton, Stephen K.; Hussain, M. Z.; Lowrie, Christopher; Basso, Bruno; Robertson, G. Philip

Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019

DOE Contract Number:: SC0018409; FC02-07ER64494

Research Org.:: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Madison, WI (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

OSTI Identifier:: 1873900

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6fm52

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                    Hamilton, Stephen K., Hussain, M. Z., Lowrie, Christopher, Basso, Bruno, and Robertson, G. Philip. Data from: Evapotranspiration is resilient in the face of land cover and climate change in a humid temperate catchment.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Hamilton, Stephen K., Hussain, M. Z., Lowrie, Christopher, Basso, Bruno, & Robertson, G. Philip. Data from: Evapotranspiration is resilient in the face of land cover and climate change in a humid temperate catchment.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6fm52

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                    Hamilton, Stephen K., Hussain, M. Z., Lowrie, Christopher, Basso, Bruno, and Robertson, G. Philip. 2019.  
"Data from: Evapotranspiration is resilient in the face of land cover and climate change in a humid temperate catchment".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6fm52.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1873900. Pub date:Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019

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  title        = {Data from: Evapotranspiration is resilient in the face of land cover and climate change in a humid temperate catchment},

  author       = {Hamilton, Stephen K. and Hussain, M. Z. and Lowrie, Christopher and Basso, Bruno and Robertson, G. Philip},

  abstractNote = {In temperate humid catchments, evapotranspiration returns more than half of the annual precipitation to the atmosphere, thereby determining the balance available to recharge groundwaters and support stream flow and lake levels. Changes in evapotranspiration rates and therefore catchment hydrology could be driven by changes in land use or climate. Here we examine the catchment water balance over the past 50 y for a catchment in southwest Michigan covered by cropland, grassland, forest, and wetlands. Over the study period about 27% of the catchment has been abandoned from row-crop agriculture to perennial vegetation and about 20% of the catchment has reverted to deciduous forest, and the climate has warmed by 1.14°C. Despite these changes in land use, precipitation and stream discharge, and by inference catchment-scale evapotranspiration, have been stable over the study period. The remarkably stable rates of evapotranspirative water loss from the catchment across a period of significant land cover change suggest that rainfed annual crops and perennial vegetation do not differ greatly in evapotranspiration rates, and this is supported by measurements of evapotranspiration from various vegetation types based on soil water monitoring in the same catchment. Compensating changes in the other meteorological drivers of evaporative water demand besides air temperature—wind speed, atmospheric humidity, and net radiation—are also possible, but cannot be evaluated due to insufficient local data across the 50-y period. Regardless of the explanation, this study shows that the water balance of this landscape has been resilient in the face of both land cover and climate change over the past 50 y.},

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Evapotranspiration is resilient in the face of land cover and climate change in a humid temperate catchment
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Hamilton, Stephen K.; Hussain, M. Z.; Lowrie, Christopher
Hydrological Processes, Vol. 32, Issue 5
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