Water balance delineates the soil layer in which moisture affects canopy conductance

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 990-1002

  Oren, Ram ^a   Ewers, Brent E ^a   Todd, Philip ^a   Phillips, Nathan ^a   Katul, Gabriel ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy; Evapotranspiration; Pinus taeda; Soil water balance; Subcanopy

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER BUDGET;

PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 0031735855     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0990:WBDTSL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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