Water use by tamarix ramosissima and associated phreatophytes in a mojave desert floodplain

Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 888-898

  Sala, Anna ^a,c   Smith, Stanley D ^a   Devitt, Dale A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Leaf area index; Mojave desert; Phreatophytes; Pluchea; Prosopis; Riparian; Salix; Sap flow; Stem heat balance; Tamarix; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

PLUCHEA; PLUCHEA SERICEA; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS PUBESCENS; RIPARIA; SALIX; SALIX EXIGUA; TAMARIX; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

EID: 0000298548     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269492     Document Type: Article

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