Assessment of the groundwater threshold of desert riparian forest vegetation along the middle and lower reaches of the Tarim River, China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 178-186

  Hao, Xingming ^a   Li, Weihong ^a   Huang, Xiang ^a   Zhu, Chenggang ^a   Ma, Jianxin ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Desert riparian forest vegetation; Gaussian regression; Groundwater depth; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ARID AREA; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL SUITABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GAUSSIAN REGRESSION; GROUND WATER LEVEL; GROUND WATER TABLE; LOGARITHM NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SPECIES; RELATION MODELS; RIPARIAN FORESTS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SOIL PROFILES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STUDY AREAS; STUDY SITES; TARIM RIVER; VEGETATION PLOTS; WATER TABLE LEVEL; WATER TABLES;

ALGEBRA; AQUIFERS; ARID REGIONS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; RIVERS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GROUNDWATER; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER DEPTH; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE;

AQUIFERS; CHINA; DEPTH; DESERTS; FORESTRY; GROUND WATER; LAND; MOISTURE; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SOIL; WATER TABLE;

CHINA; TARIM RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 77949652157     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7432     Document Type: Article

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