Disposition of rainwater under creosotebush

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2555-2566

  Abrahams, Athol D ^a   Parsons, Anthony J ^b   Wainwright, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creosotebush; Desert shrubs; Drylands; Infiltration; Overland flow; Resource islands; Stemflow; Throughfall

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; GROWTH KINETICS; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; RUNOFF; SOILS; VEGETATION;

STEMFLOW;

RAIN;

DESERT; INFILTRATION; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SHRUBLAND; STEMFLOW; THROUGHFLOW; VEGETATION COVER;

JORNADA BASIN; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

LARREA;

EID: 0141537916     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1272     Document Type: Article

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