Response of plant growth to surface water balance during a summer dry period in the Kazakhstan steppe

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2974-2981

  Iijima, Yoshihiro ^a   Kawaragi, Tsuneo ^b   Ito, Takehiko ^c   Akshalov, Kanat ^d   Tsunekawa, Atsushi ^c   Shinoda, Masato ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Baraev Kazakh Research Institute for Grain Farming Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Biomass; Energy balance; Natural grassland; Soil moisture; Summer dry period

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CURING; DROUGHT; DRYING; ECOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE; PERMITTIVITY; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS; CENTRAL ASIA; DRYLANDS; EARLY STAGES; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATIVE FRACTION; GROUND BIOMASS; GROWING SEASONS; KAZAKHSTAN; MATURE PLANTS; NATURAL GRASSLAND; PLANT GROWTH; SNOWMELT WATER; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT; SUMMER DRY PERIOD; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TOTAL RAINFALL; WATER BALANCES; WATER DEFICIT; WET SEASON;

MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

BIOMASS; GROWTH RESPONSE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; STEPPE; SUMMER; SURFACE WATER; WATER BUDGET;

ASIA; EURASIA; KAZAKHSTAN; WEST ASIA;

EID: 49249139301     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6870     Document Type: Article

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