Underground water use by Eucalyptus trees in an arid climate

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 356-362

  Cohen, Y ^a,c   Adar, E ^b   Dody, A ^b   Schiller, G ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Inst Soils Water and Environ Sci   (Israel)

Author keywords

Heat pulse; Potential transpiration; Transpiration; Water flow; Watershed

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 0030955736     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004680050096     Document Type: Article

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