Explaining streamflow deficits as a result of increased transpirative demand from regrowing forest vegetation presupposes that soil water utilized by vegetation would otherwise drain to streams and become streamflow. But this linkage is not well-established, leading to the framing question for this paper: Where and when do forests access water that could alternatively become summer streamflow?
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Submitted: Potential mechanisms driving late-summer low flow deficits following conversion of old-growth forests to plantation forests in the Pacific Northwestern USA
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