The need of data harmonization to derive robust empirical relationships between soil conditions and vegetation

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 799-808

  Bartholomews, Ruud P ^a   Witte, Jan Philip M ^a,b   Van Bodegom, Peter M ^a   Aerts, Rien ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Delayed response; Groundwater level; Indicator Value; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

EID: 51249102830     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3170/2008-8-18450     Document Type: Article

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