The affect of the water table on a forest stand. It will cause a change in the species content, diversity and overall volume production on the site. The growth of forests is dependent on many attributes. A slight change in any one of these attributes will affect the volume production and the species diversity of a given forest stand. Water is essential to the health and vigor of a forest.
Available water is affected by again many attributes.
One of the major determinants the location of the site. Elevation, latitude, longitude, proximity to mountains, rivers and large bodies of water are all important to the amount of water that will be available in the soil of a given site. For example, the latitude and longitude will affect the climate of a site providing more or less precipitation and evaporation. The proximity to a mountain range can be important again to the levels of precipitation due to the rain shadow effect of ranges. The location, with reference to bodies of water, is important to the drainage of the soil and the amount of precipitation that a site will receive.