Reconstructing plant root area and water uptake profiles

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1967-1978

  Ogle, Kiona ^a,b   Wolpert, Robert L ^a   Reynolds, James F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Creosotebush; Deconvolution; Inverse problem; Larrea tridentata; Plant water relations; RAPID; Soil texture; Soil water; Water uptake; 18O; D

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; WATER UPTAKE;

LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; TRIDENTATA;

EID: 4444375951     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0346     Document Type: Article

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