A rainout shelter design for intercepting different amounts of rainfall

Oecologia

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 95-101

  Yahdjian, Laura ^a   Sala, Osvaldo E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Arid ecosystems; Manipulative experiments; Rainfall manipulations; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

INTERCEPTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL WATER;

ARGENTINA;

BIKINIA LE-TESTUI;

EID: 0036931073     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1024-3     Document Type: Article

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