Soil water regime through contrasting pasture communities in a Submediterranean landscape

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 335, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 98-108

  Casas, Carme ^a,b   Ninot, Josep Maria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drought; Grassland; Phenology; Soil water; Soil vegetation relationships

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE; RAIN; VEGETATION;

PHENOLOGY; SOIL VEGETATION RELATIONSHIPS; SOIL WATER;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DROUGHT; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE; RAIN; SOIL SURVEYS; VEGETATION;

DROUGHT; GRASSLAND SOIL; MEDITERRANEAN SOIL; PASTURE; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

BRACHYPODIUM PHOENICOIDES; BRACHYPODIUM RETUSUM;

EID: 33847305374     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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