Effect of groundwater freshening on riparian vegetation water balance

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 3485-3499

  Doody, Tanya M ^a   Holland, Kate L ^a   Benyon, Richard G ^a   Jolly, Ian D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Floodplain; River murray; River red gum; Salinity; Sapflow

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BLACK BOXES; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; FLOOD PLAINS; GROUNDWATER LOWERING; IN-PLANTS; LEAF WATER POTENTIAL; MIXED FORESTS; OPEN FORESTS; PLANT WATER; PLANT WATER STRESS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER MURRAY; STABLE ISOTOPES; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS; WATER BALANCE; WATER SOURCE; WATER STRESS; WATER USE; WATERTABLE;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLUTION; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

RIVERS;

DROUGHT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOODPLAIN; GROUNDWATER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SALINITY; SALINIZATION; SAP FLOW; TRANSPIRATION; TREE; WATER BUDGET; WATER STRESS; WATER TABLE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

DISSOLVING; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; GROUND WATER; ISOTOPES; MEASUREMENT; OXYGEN; PLANTS; RIVERS; SALINITY; TRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MURRAY RIVER;

ACACIA; ACACIA STENOPHYLLA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; EUCALYPTUS LARGIFLORENS;

EID: 70549113755     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7460     Document Type: Article

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