Deep soil moisture storage and transpiration in forests and pastures of seasonally-dry Amazonia

Climatic Change

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 395-412

  Jipp, Peter H ^a   Nepstad, Daniel C ^b   Cassel, D K ^c   Reis De Carvalho, C ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0031876552     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005308930871     Document Type: Article

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