Partitioning overstory and understory evapotranspiration in a semiarid savanna woodland from the isotopic composition of water vapor

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 53-68

  Yepez, Enrico A ^a   Williams, David G ^a,d   Scott, Russell L ^b   Lin, Guanghui ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Flux partitioning; Mesquite Prosopis velutina; Savanna; Semiarid ecosystem; Stable isotopes; Understory; Water balance

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; SAVANNA; SEMIARID REGION; UNDERSTORY; WATER BUDGET; WOODLAND;

PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS VELUTINA; SPOROBOLUS WRIGHTII; VELUTINA;

EID: 0345149834     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(03)00116-3     Document Type: Article

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