Effects of lateral hydrological processes on photosynthesis and evapotranspiration in a boreal ecosystem

Abstract Landscape‐scale hydrological processes can greatly alter the local‐scale water balance and many ecological processes linked to it. We hypothesized that in humid forest ecosystems, topographically driven lateral subsurface flow (SSF) has significant influence on ecophysiological processes such as gross primary productivity (GPP) and evapotranspiration (ET). To investigate how simplified hydrological conceptualizations influence the …