Prospective use of collected fog water in the restoration of degraded burned areas under dry Mediterranean conditions

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1896-1906

  Estrela, María J ^a,b   Valiente, José A ^a   Corell, David ^a   Fuentes, David ^a   Valdecantos, Alejandro ^a,c  

^a FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Micro irrigation; Passive fog collection; Reforestation; Valencia region

Indexed keywords

FOG; FOREST FIRE; LAND DEGRADATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RAINGAUGE; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; WIND DIRECTION;

COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; VALENCIA [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA];

ILEX; PINUS PINASTER; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 69649087053     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.06.016     Document Type: Article

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