Belowground interactions for water between trees and grasses in a temperate semiarid agroforestry system

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 185-197

  Fernández, María Elena ^a,b   Gyenge, Javier ^a,b   Licata, Julian ^c   Schlichter, Tomás ^b   Bond, Barbara J ^c  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b Inst Nac de Tecnol Agropecuaria   (Argentina)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Hydraulic lift; Patagonia; Ponderosa pine; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROFORESTRY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COMPLEMENTARITY; CONIFEROUS TREE; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MONOCULTURE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; ROOT SYSTEM; SAP FLOW; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER UPTAKE; WATER USE;

POACEAE;

EID: 50249173840     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-008-9119-4     Document Type: Article

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