Headwater regions — physical, ecological, and social approaches to understand these areas: introduction to the special issue

doi:10.1007/s11707-017-0667-7

Front. Earth Sci.

2017, Vol. 11

Issue (3) : 443-446 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-017-0667-7

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Headwater regions — physical, ecological, and social approaches to understand these areas: introduction to the special issue

Steven R. FASSNACHT^1,^2,^3,^4,⁵(

), Ryan W. WEBB⁶, William E. SANFORD⁷

¹. ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1476, USA
². Geographisches Institut, Abt. Kartographie, GIS & Fernerkundung, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
³. Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1375, USA
⁴. Geospatial Centroid, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1101, USA
⁵. Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499, USA
⁶. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, USA
⁷. Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1482, USA

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Steven R. FASSNACHT,Ryan W. WEBB,William E. SANFORD. Headwater regions — physical, ecological, and social approaches to understand these areas: introduction to the special issue[J]. Front. Earth Sci., 2017, 11(3): 443-446.

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