Growing islands and sinking solutes: Processes maintaining the endorheic Okavango Delta as a freshwater system

Plant Ecology

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 215-231

  Ramberg, Lars ^a   Wolski, Piotr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Calcrete; Density fingering; Island growth; Okavango; Saline groundwater; Wetland

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCRETE; CHLORIDE; CLAY SOIL; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FINGERING; FLOODPLAIN; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FUTURE PROSPECT; HALOPHYTE; INFILTRATION; ISLAND; MAGNESIUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SALINITY; SURFACE WATER; WATER CHEMISTRY;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; NGAMILAND; OKAVANGO DELTA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 42549129197     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9346-1     Document Type: Article

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