Intensive or extensive use of soil moisture: Plant strategies to cope with stochastic water availability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 4495-4497

  Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^a   Porporato, Amilcare ^a   Laio, Francesco ^b   Ridolfi, Luca ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOILS; STRESS ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

MOISTURE;

PLANT; SOIL MOISTURE; STOCHASTICITY; WATER USE;

EID: 0035678841     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL012905     Document Type: Article

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