%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Lacombe, G.
%A Pierret, Alain
%T Hydrological impact of war-induced deforestation in the Mekong Basin
%D 2013
%L PAR00011030
%G ENG
%J Ecohydrology
%@ 1936-0584
%K hydrological change ; deforestation ; data scarcity ; causal link ; Vietnam War ; Mekong
%K MEKONG BASSIN ; LAOS
%M ISI:000325487300019
%N 5
%P 901-903
%R 10.1002/eco.1395
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/PAR00011030
%V 6
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X The Vietnam War played a decisive role in the pre-1990s deforestation of the lower Mekong Basin, which in turn likely influenced regional broad-scale hydrology. This note presents and discusses new analyses that strengthen this thesis. Although concurrent overestimation of discharge and underestimation of rainfall, a couple of years after bombing climaxed in the early 1970s, could theoretically explain the sharp rise in water yield previously attributed to bomb-induced deforestation, new observations suggest that bombing has durably modified the landscape: by 2002, degraded forests still largely overlapped with areas heavily bombed 30years earlier. This corroborates observed long-term hydrological changes and suggests that warfare-induced deforestation has more profound and durable hydrological effects than previously thought.
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