Melbourne School of Land and Environment Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science

Suzanne Witteveen

Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science
Melbourne School of Land and Environment
The University of Melbourne
Level 1, 221 Bouverie St, Parkville
VIC, 3010, Australia
Email: s.witteveen@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Degree

PhD

Thesis title

Intra-annual hydrological responses to climate variation in native mixed-forest catchments

Supervisors

Dr Patrick Lane
Dr Leon Bren

Project Outline

Victoria has experienced a marked decline in rainfall over the past decade, but how has this affected streamflows? In particular, have the intra-annual flows vital to ecological and water resource management – seasonal, low and high end flows – altered? This study aims to investigate how decreasing rainfall in native forest, medium rainfall catchments has impacted upon intra-annual flows, with an emphasis on whether soil moisture storages correlate with streamflow patterns.

 

Link to Forests and Water Research Group page

Link to Postgraduate index page

 

 

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