The DOI matches its Crossref record; 10 of the 10 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Beyond the water balance
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“Furthermore, the over-reliance on steady-state water budget accounting for management, rather than focusing on the specific inventory of water resources has resulted in substantial misunderstandings of these systems (McDonnell,2017).”
From Relic Groundwater and Prolonged Drought Confound Interpretations of Water Sustainability and Lithium Extraction in Arid Lands (2022) · cites this paper as McDonnell,2017
Citations
Cites
Fractal stream chemistry and its implications for contaminant transport in catchments
Kirchner, J. W., Feng, X., & Neal, C. (2000) · Nature · doi:10.1038/35000537 · Cited by 1,001
Ecohydrologic separation of water between trees and streams in a Mediterranean climate
Brooks, J. R., Barnard, H., Coulombe, R. A., & McDonnell, J. J. (2009) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/ngeo722 · Cited by 843
Self-citationHydrologic connectivity constrains partitioning of global terrestrial water fluxes
Good, S. P., Noone, D., & Bowen, G. (2015) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aaa5931 · Cited by 739
Global separation of plant transpiration from groundwater and streamflow
Evaristo, J., Jasechko, S., & McDonnell, J. J. (2015) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature14983 · Cited by 569
Self-citationConnections between groundwater flow and transpiration partitioning
Maxwell, R. M., & Condon, L. E. (2016) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aaf7891 · Cited by 569
Substantial proportion of global streamflow less than three months old
Jasechko, S., Kirchner, J. W., Welker, J. M., & McDonnell, J. J. (2016) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/ngeo2636 · Cited by 423
Self-citationGlobal aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination
Jasechko, S., Perrone, D., Befus, K. M., Bayani Cardenas, M., Ferguson, G., Gleeson, T., Luijendijk, E., McDonnell, J. J., Taylor, R. G., Wada, Y., et al. (2017) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/ngeo2943 · Cited by 356
Self-citationDeep fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the Precambrian era
Holland, G., Lollar, B. S., Li, L., Lacrampe-Couloume, G., Slater, G. F., & Ballentine, C. J. (2013) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature12127 · Cited by 204
Subsurface flow from snowmelt traced by tritium
Martinec, J. (1975) · Water Resources Research · doi:10.1029/wr011i003p00496 · Cited by 104
Hall, S. J., Weintraub, S. R., & Bowling, D. R. (2016) · Oecologia · doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3626-1 · Cited by 27
Cited by
Moran, B. J., Boutt, D. F., McKnight, S. V., Jenckes, J., Munk, L. A., Corkran, D., & Kirshen, A. (2022) · Earth's Future · doi:10.1029/2021ef002555 · Cited by 50
“Furthermore, the over-reliance on steady-state water budget accounting for management, rather than focusing on the specific inventory of water resources has resulted in substantial misunderstandings of these systems (McDonnell, 2017).”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- McDonnell, J. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Saskatchewan (CA)
- Corresponding author
- McDonnell, Jeffrey J.
- Venue
- Nature Geoscience
- Published
- 2017-05-29
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 396-396
- ISSN
- 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
- 1752-0908
- OpenAlex
- W2618383739
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 11
- FWCI
- 3.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (tdm)
- www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (vor)
- Locations
- Nature Geoscience (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Keywords
- terrestrial water cycle, catchment water storage, water balance, time scales, catchment hydrology
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