Increased water use by ponderosa pine plantations in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina compared with native forest vegetation

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 753-764

  Licata, Julian A ^a   Gyenge, Javier E ^b   Fernández, Maria Elena ^b   Schlichter, Tomás M ^b   Bond, Barbara J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Inst Nac de Tecnol Agropecuaria   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cordilleran cypress; Ecohydrology; Exotic plantations; Sap flow; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION; WATER RESOURCES;

CORDILLERAN CYPRESS; ECOHYDROLOGY; EXOTIC PLANTATIONS; SAP FLOW; WATER USE;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SAP FLOW; SOIL WATER; TIMBER; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE;

FORESTRY; PLANTS; PRECIPITATION; TRANSPIRATION; WATER RESOURCES;

ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AUSTROCEDRUS CHILENSIS; CUPRESSUS; PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 38949198341     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.09.061     Document Type: Article

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