Implementation of a microscopic soil-root hydraulic conductivity drop function in a three-dimensional soil-root architecture water transfer model

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 783-792

  Schröder, Tom ^a   Javaux, Mathieu ^a,b   Vanderborght, Jan ^a   Körfgen, Bernd ^a   Vereecken, Harry ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL WATER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER UPTAKE;

EID: 70349332539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2008.0116     Document Type: Article

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