Impacts of juniper vegetation and karst geology on subsurface flow processes in the Edwards plateau, Texas

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1076-1085

  Dasgupta, Surajit ^a   Mohanty, Binayak P ^a   Köhne, J Maximilian ^a,b  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DYE TRACER; KARST HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RAINFALL; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TRENCH; WATER CONTENT; WATER EXCHANGE; WOODLAND;

EDWARDS PLATEAU; HONEY CREEK STATE NATURAL AREA; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS ASHEI;

EID: 34547894188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2005.0073     Document Type: Article

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