Abstract
The importance of long-term data, as summarized by Stednick et al., is linked to watershed management needs: “Often the value of long-term data is not appreciated until those data are needed to respond to a management question—or, more often, a crisis.” For scientists and Practitioners to make informed recommendations and decisions, the impacts of land cover changes (e.g., forest harvesting, wildfire, and disease) in forested watersheds must be disentangled from inter-annual weather and climatic variability. Long-term, detailed datasets are required to predict the potential impact of future changes in climate and vegetation. The purpose of this special issue of The Forestry Chronicle is to present long-term watershed researach studies that have provided useful informatino on regional hydrology that can be used to make informed forest land-use and management decisions in Alberta.
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Citation
The Forestry Chronicle, 2016, 92(1): 3-5, 10.5558/tfc2016-001
