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Table 1 Time-trend analysis of annual variables in the Chilcotin watershed by period

From: Dramatic increase in water use efficiency with cumulative forest disturbance at the large forested watershed scale

Type of variable Variable 1971—1999 2000—2016
Tau P-value Tau P-value
Forest disturbance CECA 1.000  < 0.001 0.950  < 0.001
Carbon AGBIO 0.995  < 0.001 − 0.750  < 0.001
TEC 1.000  < 0.001 − 0.267 0.163
DOM 0.995  < 0.001 0.783  < 0.001
NPP 0.974  < 0.001 − 0.217 0.260
NBP -0.799  < 0.001 − 0.133 0.499
Climate Tmean 0.280 0.038 0.200 0.300
Tmax 0.280 0.038 0.217 0.260
Tmin 0.302 0.026 0.067 0.753
P 0.127 0.353 − 0.083 0.685
PET 0.206 0.128 0.233 0.224
Water ET 0.164 0.228 − 0.417 0.027
Q 0.185 0.173 0.333 0.079
Runoff ratio 0.037 0.797 0.150 0.444
Carbon and water relationship WUE 0.032 0.828 0.383 0.043
  1. Where, tau is the z-statistic from the Mann–Kendall test indicating the direction of change of the variable; p-value is the level of significance from the Mann–Kendall test; and bolded italics indicate significant trends at a significance level of 0.05), CECA cumulative clear-cut area, AGBIO  above ground biomass, DOM  dead organic matter, TEC total ecosystem carbon, NPP  net primary production, NBP net biome production, Tmean annual average daily temperature, Tmin annual minimum daily temperature, Tmax  annual maximum daily temperature, P  precipitation, PET  potential evapotranspiration, ET evapotranspiration, Q mean annual streamflow, WUE water use efficiency
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