Comparative study on the water characteristics of Populus euphratica with different depths of underground water in the foreland of Takelamakan Desert

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4890, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 501-511

  Zeng, Fanjiang ^a   Zhang, Ximing ^a   Foetzki, Andrea ^b   Li, Xiangyi ^a   Runge, Michael ^b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dunes; Populus enphratica; Takelamakan Desert; Water relation

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MORPHOLOGY; SAND; WATER SUPPLY;

STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 0242467684     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.466573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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