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HESS Opinions: From response units to functional units: a thermodynamic reinterpretation of the HRU concept to link spatial organization and functioning of intermediate scale catchments
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
L. Pfister
Centre de Recherche Public – Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
B. Schröder
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
M. Westhoff
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
C. Jackisch
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
S. J. Schymanski
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
M. Weiler
University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
K. Schulz
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
N. Allroggen
University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
J. Tronicke
University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
L. van Schaik
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
P. Dietrich
Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
U. Scherer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
J. Eccard
Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
V. Wulfmeyer
Universität Hohenheim, Hohenheim, Germany
A. Kleidon
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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