caa a22 4500 46902559X CHVBK 20180323132729.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00150632 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00150632 Hamilton Lawrence East-West Center, Environment and Policy Institute, 1777 East-West Road, 96848, Honolulu, HI, USA aut The protective role of mountain forests [Elektronische Daten] [Lawrence Hamilton] While additional research in needed on the hydrological and erosional effects of changes in mountain forests, sufficient knowledge is available, or may be inferred from existing research, to question, refute or reaffirm some of the conventional wisdom about the protective role of these forests. A major difficulty is sorting out the consequences of natural processes from those caused by anthropogenic actions. The effects of alteration or removal/conversion of mountain forests on rainfall, surface erosion, mass erosion, sediment, floods and low flows is reviewed. It is suggested that a key factor in the cause/effect scenario is the size of the catchment unit being appraised. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/1(1992-05-01), 13-22 0343-2521 27:1<13 1992 27 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00150632 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00150632 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hamilton Lawrence East-West Center, Environment and Policy Institute, 1777 East-West Road, 96848, Honolulu, HI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/1(1992-05-01), 13-22 0343-2521 27:1<13 1992 27 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer