Spatially integrated estimates of landscape water fluxes at several contrasting sites

Funding: 2008: $97,000
2009: $84,000
2010: $60,000

Project Member(s): Eamus, D.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2008

Summary: The aim of this project is to measure, in real time, a true spatially averaged rate of evaporation of water into the atmosphere, from 4 diverse ecosystems and use these measurements to refine a practical model of these water fluxes. This will enable water, forestry and landscape managers to predict how current and future climate, and current and future land-use management practices will impact evapotranspiration, water yield and groundwater recharge. Because climate and land-use practices change with time, and water resources are extremely scarce, this predictive ability is of great value to science, the community and industry.

Keywords: ecosystem water use, evapotranspiration, forestry, energy balance, water yield, tree water use,

FOR Codes: Groundwater Hydrology, Biological Mathematics, Native forests, Remnant vegetation and protected conservation areas, Plant Physiology, Remnant Vegetation and Protected Conservation Areas in Forest and Woodlands Environments, Hydrogeology, Biological mathematics , Hydrology, Plant physiology , Rehabilitation or conservation of terrestrial environments

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.