Life on the edge - To which degree does phreatic water sustain vegetation in the periphery of the Taklamakan Desert?

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 56-71

  Bruelheide, Helge ^a   Vonlanthen, Beatrix ^a   Jandt, Ute ^a   Thomas, Frank M ^b   Foetzki, Andrea ^c   Gries, Dirk ^d   Wang, Gang ^e   Zhang, Ximing ^f   Runge, Michael ^g  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^d XLAB   (Germany)

^e LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

China; Desert vegetation; Groundwater map; Oasis vegetation; Phreatophytes; Soil matric potential; Soil texture; Soil water content; Soil water retention curves; Sum exceedance values; Vegetation map; Xinjiang

Indexed keywords

ALHAGI SPARSIFOLIA; CALLIGONUM CAPUT-MEDUSAE; KARELINIA CASPIA; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; POPULUS EUPHRATICA; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

EID: 76349091553     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2009.01050.x     Document Type: Article

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