Changes in water relations for Acacia ancistrocarpa on natural and mine-rehabilitation sites in response to an experimental wetting pulse in the Great Sandy Desert

Plant and Soil

Volumn 326, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-96

  Grigg, Alasdair M ^a   Lambers, Hans ^a   Veneklaas, Erik J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Plant water relations; Rain pulses; Restoration ecology; Sap flow; Semi arid zone; Store release cover; Waste rock dump rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECT; HAZARDOUS WASTE; MINE WASTE; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAP FLOW; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; SOIL COVER; WET SEASON;

AUSTRALIA; GREAT SANDY DESERT [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ACACIA;

EID: 72149134910     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-9957-5     Document Type: Article

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