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In these areas, it was concluded that downcutting was in response to reduced sediment supply from slopes and perhaps to reduced stream flow as a result of increasing interception by the closing (or closed) canopy forest (Peacock and Turner, 2003; Peacock and Marden, 2004).
A combination of lower precipitation and high temperatures over the last three years, coupled with relatively little snow, has reduced stream flows in the region to well below normal.
Law (1956), a water supply engineer, reported reduced stream flow into a reservoir whose catchment had been afforested.
Persistent drought over eastern Australia at the turn of the last millennium reduced stream flow in Australia's largest and most economically important drainage basin.
But such were the rates of acidification and salinization of soil that reduced productivity and, in the case of salinity, reduced stream quality and threatened adjacent natural ecosystems.
The most severe period of reduced stream flow occurred during the Medieval Warm Period (ca. mid-1200s CE) and persisted for ∼70 years.
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The firm may be faced with a choice between reduced streaming rights or a cut in its hefty profit margin.
The first was the slow speed of most web connections, which reduced streamed video to a fuzzy postage stamp and made music downloads something to try the patience of saints, never mind teenagers.
That, in turn, has affected popular summer floats down the scenic Salmon River and reduced streams that nurture the area's famous trout fishing.
There was a strong negative relationship between invertebrate richness and distance downstream, driven by a gradient of reducing stream power and substratum particle size along the streams.
Forest plantations generally reduce stream flow and lower the water table level because their water use is higher than the previous land cover types they are replacing.
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