Journal
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 599-604Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01984.x
Keywords
carbon sequestration; dry-season streamflow; groundwater; hydrological model; REDD; transpiration; tropical forest; water budget
Funding
- Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
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Tree planting in the tropics is conducted for a number of reasons including carbon sequestration, but often competes with increasingly scarce water resources. The basics of forest and water relations are frequently said to be well understood but there is a pressing need to better understand and predict the hydrological effects of land-use and climate change in the complex and dynamic landscapes of the tropics. This will remain elusive without the empirical data required to feed hydrological process models. It is argued that the current state of knowledge is confused by too broad a use of the terms 'forest' and '(af)forestation', as well as by a bias towards using data generated mostly outside the tropics and for nondegraded soil conditions. Definitions of forest, afforestation and reforestation as used in the climate change community and their application by land and water managers need to be reconciled.
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