Climate change and water use of native vegetation

Macinnis-Ng, CM; Eamus, D

Climate change and water use of native vegetation

Macinnis-Ng, CM Eamus, D

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Publisher:: Land and Water Australia
Publication Type:: Report
Citation:: 2009, pp. 1 - 16
Issue Date:: 2009-01

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dc.contributor.author	Macinnis-Ng, CM	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Eamus, D https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2765-8040	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2009, pp. 1 - 16	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-9806611-8-7	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/16732
dc.description.abstract	Under climate change conditions Australia will generally be hotter and, for many parts of the country drier. Vegetation water use is strongly influenced by soil moisture availability (which is influenced by rainfall) and evaporative demand. Soil moisture will be more scarce in the future across much of the continent due to declining rainfall. The major input of water into the Australian landscape is rainfall and most rainfall (7095%) returns to the atmosphere as evapotranspiration, leaving little water for human consumption, riverflows and recharge of groundwater. The proportion of rainfall used in evapotranspiration increases as rainfall declines so even though the absolute amount of transpiration may decline, the water yield of a landscape will also decline as rainfall decreases with climate change.	en_US
dc.publisher	Land and Water Australia	en_US
dc.title	Climate change and water use of native vegetation	en_US
dc.type	Report
utslib.location	Canberra, Australia	en_US
utslib.for	0502 Environmental Science and Management	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science/School of Life Sciences
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pubs.place-of-publication	Canberra, Australia	en_US

Abstract:

Under climate change conditions Australia will generally be hotter and, for many parts of the country drier. Vegetation water use is strongly influenced by soil moisture availability (which is influenced by rainfall) and evaporative demand. Soil moisture will be more scarce in the future across much of the continent due to declining rainfall. The major input of water into the Australian landscape is rainfall and most rainfall (7095%) returns to the atmosphere as evapotranspiration, leaving little water for human consumption, riverflows and recharge of groundwater. The proportion of rainfall used in evapotranspiration increases as rainfall declines so even though the absolute amount of transpiration may decline, the water yield of a landscape will also decline as rainfall decreases with climate change.

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