Forest harvesting impacts on microclimate conditions and sediment transport activities in a humid periglacial environment

Imaizumi, Fumitoshi; Nishii, Ryoko; Ueno, Kenichi; Kurobe, Kousei

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-155-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-155-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-155-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 1

Research article

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14 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 14 Jan 2019

Forest harvesting impacts on microclimate conditions and sediment transport activities in a humid periglacial environment

Fumitoshi Imaizumi, Ryoko Nishii, Kenichi Ueno, and Kousei Kurobe

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Forest harvesting impacts on micrometeorological conditions and sediment transport activities in a humid periglacial environment', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Mar 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Fumitoshi Imaizumi, 12 Apr 2018
RC2: 'Comments to the authors', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 May 2018
- AC2: 'reply for review comments', Fumitoshi Imaizumi, 07 Jun 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (28 Jun 2018) by Fuqiang Tian

AR by Fumitoshi Imaizumi on behalf of the Authors (02 Aug 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (29 Aug 2018) by Fuqiang Tian

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (18 Oct 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (16 Dec 2018)

ED: Publish as is (16 Dec 2018) by Fuqiang Tian

AR by Fumitoshi Imaizumi on behalf of the Authors (16 Dec 2018)

Short summary

We investigated seasonal changes in sediment transport activities following forest harvesting in a humid periglacial area. Removal of the forest canopy by forest harvesting alters the type of winter soil creep. Winter creep velocity of the ground surface sediment in the harvested site was significantly higher than that in the non-harvested site. Meanwhile, sediment flux on the hillslopes decreased in the harvested site because of capture of sediment by branches of harvested trees.