Variability of water fluxes through the black spruce (Picea mariana) canopy and feather moss (Pleurozium schreberi) carpet in the boreal forest of Northern Manitoba

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 196, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 310-323

  Price, A G ^a   Dunham, K ^b   Carleton, T ^b   Band, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Department of Geology   (Canada)

^c Department of Geography ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF WATER; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PLANTS (BOTANY); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

STREAMFLOW; WATER FLUX MEASUREMENTS;

HYDROLOGY;

BOREAL FOREST; INTERCEPTION; MOSS; SPRUCE; STEMFLOW; THROUGHFALL; WATER FLUX;

BRYOPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA MARIANA; PLEUROZIUM SCHREBERI;

EID: 0031239132     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(96)03233-7     Document Type: Article

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