Bark beetle impacts on forest evapotranspiration and its partitioning

Insect outbreaks affect forest structure and function and represent a major category of forest disturbance globally. However, the resulting impacts on evapotranspiration (ET), and especially hydrological partitioning between the abi-otic (evaporation) and biotic (transpiration) components of total ET, are not well constrained. As a result, we combined remote sensing, eddy covariance, and hydrological modeling approaches to determine the effects of bark beetle out-break on ET and its partitioning at multiple scales throughout the Southern Rocky Mountain Ecoregion (SRME), USA. At the eddy covariance measurement scale, 85 % of the forest was affected by beetles, and water year ET as a

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Author Knowles, J. F.
Bjarke, N. R.
Badger, A. M.
Berkelhammer, M.
Biederman, J. A.
Blanken, P. D.
Bretfeld, M.
Burns, Sean
Ewers, B. E.
Frank, J. M.
Hicke, J. A.
Lestak, L.
Livneh, B.
Reed, D. E.
Scott, R. L.
Molotch, N. P.
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Publication Date 2023-07-01T00:00:00
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Suggested Citation Knowles, J. F., Bjarke, N. R., Badger, A. M., Berkelhammer, M., Biederman, J. A., Blanken, P. D., Bretfeld, M., Burns, Sean, Ewers, B. E., Frank, J. M., Hicke, J. A., Lestak, L., Livneh, B., Reed, D. E., Scott, R. L., Molotch, N. P.. (2023). Bark beetle impacts on forest evapotranspiration and its partitioning. UCAR/NCAR - Library. https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7m90dmv. Accessed 18 August 2025.

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