Ecohydrological modelling with EcH2O‐iso to quantify forest and grassland effects on water partitioning and flux ages

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to acknowledge research funding from the European Research Council (project GA 335910 VeWa). M. Maneta acknowledges support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (project GSS 1461576). C. S. is grateful to the Leibniz IGB Berlin for a Senior Research Fellowship. We also thank Umweltbundesamt (UBA) for providing the climate data. DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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