Ecohydrology of root zone water fluxes and soil development in complex semiarid rangelands

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3289-3316

  Gutiérrez Jurado, Hugo A ^a   Vivoni, Enrique R ^a   Harrison, J Bruce J ^a   Guan, Huade ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biome transition; Calcic soils; Evapotranspiration; New Mexico; Pedogenesis; Plant water interactions; Semiarid hydrology; Vadose zone modelling

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

BIOME TRANSITION; CALCIC SOILS; PEDOGENESIS; PLANT-WATER INTERACTIONS;

LANDFORMS;

ARID REGIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGY; LANDFORMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

BASIN; ECOHYDROLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HILLSLOPE; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; RANGELAND; SOIL WATER; VADOSE ZONE; VEGETATION; WATER BUDGET;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS MONOSPERMA; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA;

EID: 33750223850     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6333     Document Type: Article

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