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to changes in P and EP, respectively. In practice, this means that a major change in climate would be required to replicate the impacts of defores-tation within the more moderate EP/P ranges (EP/P ~ 0.4 to 2.2) in these wetland catchments. Therefore, the observed increases in water yield in the Australasian paleoecological records are better explained by deforestation rather than cli-mate change. We conclude that increased water yield is a critical factor in the evolution and maintenance of wetlands in deforested regions. These findings have implications for the way we study and manage global lakes andwetlands. Studies should be designed to examine baseline hydrologica