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- Title
Hydrological impact of war-induced deforestation in the Mekong Basin.
- Authors
Lacombe, Guillaume; Pierret, Alain
- Abstract
ABSTRACT The Vietnam War played a decisive role in the pre-1990s deforestation of the lower Mekong Basin, which in turn likely influenced regional broad-scale hydrology. This note presents and discusses new analyses that strengthen this thesis. Although concurrent overestimation of discharge and underestimation of rainfall, a couple of years after bombing climaxed in the early 1970s, could theoretically explain the sharp rise in water yield previously attributed to bomb-induced deforestation, new observations suggest that bombing has durably modified the landscape: by 2002, degraded forests still largely overlapped with areas heavily bombed 30 years earlier. This corroborates observed long-term hydrological changes and suggests that warfare-induced deforestation has more profound and durable hydrological effects than previously thought. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
VIETNAM War, 1961-1975; DEFORESTATION; HYDROLOGY; RAINFALL; FOREST degradation
- Publication
Ecohydrology, 2013, Vol 6, Issue 5, p901
- ISSN
1936-0584
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/eco.1395