Exploring below ground complementarity in agroforestry using sap flow and root fractal techniques

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-103

  Ong, C K ^a   Deans, J D ^b   Wilson, J ^b   Mutua, J ^c   Khan, A A H ^a   Lawson, E M ^b  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Competition; Heat pulse; Root architecture; Root function; Root water uptake

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; COMPETITION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; ROOT; SAP FLOW;

KENYA;

EID: 0032318909     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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