On the relationships between catchment scale and streamwater mean residence time
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Brian McGlynn1* Jeff McDonnell2 Mike Stewart3 Jan Seibert4 1 Department of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences (BM), Montana State University, Bozemann, MT, USA 2 Department of Forest Engineering (JM), Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA 3 IGNS, New Zealand (MS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand 4 Department of Environmental Assessment (JS), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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