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At the present, groundwater interactions with forest hydrology fluxes are poorly understood from both physical and biogeochemical perspectives. Our poor understanding of the interactions between canopy and surface fluxes with groundwater from physical and biogeochemical perspectives may be due, in part, to the fact that forest hydrology and groundwater hydrology have developed separately and that relatively little attention has been directed toward the interactions between groundwater and forest hydrology fluxes. Groundwater, however, constitutes a very important component in the hydrological cycle at the watershed scale, connecting precipitation (an input) with surface waters (an output). Hence, further integrated investigations of these groundwater–surface water systems and their interactions are needed to advance our understanding of the connections between surface and groundwater in forested ecosystems. The increasing focus on ecosystems and climate change on hydrological cycles necessitates a much better understanding on the connections and interactions between canopy fluxes and groundwater in forests.
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Tanaka, T. (2011). Effects of the Canopy Hydrologic Flux on Groundwater. In: Levia, D., Carlyle-Moses, D., Tanaka, T. (eds) Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry. Ecological Studies, vol 216. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1363-5_25
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