Hydrologic data for the effects of forest cover on base flow of streams in the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico
Dates
Publication Date
2017-03-02
Citation
Rodríguez-Martínez, Jesús, Santiago, Marilyn, 2017, Hydrologic data for the effects of forest cover on base flow of streams in the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7N58JG5.
Summary
This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release consists of daily mean base flow, daily precipitation and slug test data collected for a study to determine whether a relation exists between the extent of forest cover and the magnitude of base flow at two sets of paired drainage basins in the highlands of the municipalities of Adjuntas and Utuado within the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico. One set of paired basins includes the Río Guaónica and Río Tanamá, both tributaries of the Río Grande de Arecibo. The other set includes two smaller basins in the drainage basin of the Río Coabey, which is a tributary of the Río Tanamá. The paired basins in each set have similar rainfall patterns, geologic substrate, and aspect; the principal [...]
Summary
This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release consists of daily mean base flow, daily precipitation and slug test data collected for a study to determine whether a relation exists between the extent of forest cover and the magnitude of base flow at two sets of paired drainage basins in the highlands of the municipalities of Adjuntas and Utuado within the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico. One set of paired basins includes the Río Guaónica and Río Tanamá, both tributaries of the Río Grande de Arecibo. The other set includes two smaller basins in the drainage basin of the Río Coabey, which is a tributary of the Río Tanamá. The paired basins in each set have similar rainfall patterns, geologic substrate, and aspect; the principal difference identified in the study is the extent of forest cover and related land uses such as the cultivation of shade and sun coffee. Data describing the hydrology, hydrogeology, and streamflow were used in the analysis. The principal objective of the study was to compare base flow per unit area among basins having different areal extents of forest cover and land uses such as shade coffee and sun coffee cultivation.
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Rodríguez-Martínez, Jesús, and Santiago, Marilyn, 2017, The effects of forest cover on base flow of streams in the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico, 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016–5142, 19 p.,https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20165142.
These data support the following publication: Rodríguez-Martínez, Jesús, and Santiago, Marilyn, 2017, The effects of forest cover on base flow of streams in the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico, 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016–5142, 19 p.,https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20165142.
