Water use by perennial plants in the transition zone between river oasis and desert in NW China

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 253-267

  Thomas, Frank M ^a   Foetzki, Andrea ^a   Arndt, Stefan K ^b   Bruelheide, Helge ^a   Gries, Dirk ^a   Li, Xiangyi ^c   Zeng, Fanjiang ^c   Zhang, Ximing ^c   Runge, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass production; Central Asia; Ground water; Inundation; Penman Monteith equation; Soil water content; Stomatal conductance; Taklamakan desert; Transpiration; Xylem sap flow

Indexed keywords

ALHAGI SPARSIFOLIA; CALLIGONUM CAPUT-MEDUSAE; POPULUS EUPHRATICA; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

EID: 33645752047     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2005.07.008     Document Type: Article

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