Water relations of riparian plants from warm desert regions

Wetlands

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 687-696

  Smith, Stanley D ^a   Devitt, Dale A ^a,b   Sala, Anna ^c   Cleverly, James R ^a   Busch, David E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground water; Phreatophyte; Plant water relations; Populus; Prosopis; Riparian; Salix; Sap flow; Stable isotopes; Tamarix; Transpiration; Water stress

Indexed keywords

DESERT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; WATER RELATIONS;

(SOUTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

POPULUS; PROSOPIS; RIPARIA; SALIX; TAMARIX; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

EID: 0032454882     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03161683     Document Type: Article

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