Effect of forest cover on the stream flow from small watersheds

S.C. Kostadinov; S.S. Mitrovic

ABSTRACT:

Stream flow from a watershed is a consequence of the rainfall, but it also depends on other (factors such as terrain configurations, parent rock, soil, vegetation cover, erosion processes, etc. Investigations in small watersheds in West Serbia have shown the significant impact of forest cover in the watershed on maximum annual discharge and specific discharge. The watershed of Lonjinski Potok, with 70% forest cover, bas a balanced regime of runoff, whereas the watersheds Djurinovac Potok (39.5% forest) and Dubosnicki Potok (48.5%) forest) have unbalanced regimes of runoff. The statistical analyses showed that there is a good degree of correlation between annual specific discharge (from a watershed) and annual volume of rainfall.

Footnotes

Kostadinov Stanimir is an associate professor of erosion and torrential flows and member of the Society of Forestry Engineers and Technicians of Serbia. Mitrouic Slobodanka is an assistant professor of mathematics and member of the Institute of Mathematics in Belgrade, Belgrade University, Faculty of Forestry, Kneza Viseslava 1,11030 Belgrade.
Copyright 1994 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society

This article requires a subscription to view the full text. If you have a subscription you may use the login form below to view the article. Access to this article can also be purchased.