Are climatic or land cover changes the dominant cause of runoff trends in the Upper Mississippi River Basin?

Midwest U.S. landscape change to 2020 driven by biofuel mandates

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On the frequency of heavy rainfall for the Midwest of the United States

(2011) Gabriele Villarini et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Possible link between irrigation in the U.S. High Plains and increased summer streamflow in the Midwest

(2011) M. Deniz Kustu et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

A regional scale assessment of land use/land cover and climatic changes on water and energy cycle in the upper Midwest United States

(2010) Vimal Mishra et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Evidence of enhanced precipitation due to irrigation over the Great Plains of the United States

(2010) Anthony DeAngelis et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Quantifying the effect of land use land cover change on increasing discharge in the Upper Mississippi River

(2010) Keith E. Schilling et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Impacts of land-use change on hydrologic responses in the Great Lakes region

(2009) Dazhi Mao et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

A simple approach to distinguish land-use and climate-change effects on watershed hydrology

(2009) Mark D. Tomer et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000

(2008) Chad Monfreda et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Reconstructed historical land cover and biophysical parameters for studies of land-atmosphere interactions within the eastern United States

(2008) Louis T. Steyaert et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Anthropogenically enhanced fluxes of water and carbon from the Mississippi River

(2008) Peter A. Raymond et al.   NATURE

Impact of land use and land cover change on the water balance of a large agricultural watershed: Historical effects and future directions

(2008) Keith E. Schilling et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH