Riparian ecohydrology: Regulation of water flux from the ground to the atmosphere in the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3207-3225

  Cleverly, James R ^a   Dahm, Clifford N ^a   Thibault, James R ^a   McDonnell, Dianne E ^a,b   Allred Coonrod, Julie E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth to groundwater; Eddy covariance; Evapotranspiration; Floodplain; Leaf area index; Micrometeorology; Phreatophytes; Rio Grande cottonwood; Russian olive; Saltcedar; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CORRELATION METHODS; ECOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DEPTH TO GROUND; EDDY COVARIANCE; FLOODPLAIN; LEAF AREA INDEX; MICROMETEOROLOGY; PHREATOPHYTES; RIO GRANDE COTTONWOOD;

HYDROLOGY;

CATCHMENTS; CORRELATION METHODS; ECOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DROUGHT; ECOHYDROLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOODPLAIN; GROUNDWATER; LEAF AREA INDEX; MICROMETEOROLOGY; RIPARIAN ZONE; TRANSPIRATION; WATER BUDGET; WATER TABLE;

BASINS; CORRELATION; ECOLOGY; ELAEAGNUS; EVAPORATION; GROUND WATER; HYDROLOGY; POPULUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSPIRATION;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; RIO GRANDE; UNITED STATES;

ELAEAGNUS ANGUSTIFOLIA; POPULUS; POPULUS DELTOIDES; TAMARIX; TAMARIX CHINENSIS;

EID: 33750218638     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6328     Document Type: Article

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