Throughfall reduction in a cacao agroforest: Tree water use and soil water budgeting

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 1079-1089

  Köhler, Michael ^a   Schwendenmann, Luitgard ^a,b   Hölscher, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Drainage; Gliricidia sepium; Indonesia; Sap flux density; Theobroma cacao; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; DRAINAGE; EL NINO; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REWETTING; SAP FLOW; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; THROUGHFALL; TOPSOIL; TRANSPIRATION; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER BUDGET; WATER CONTENT; WATER UPTAKE; WATER USE;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; SULAWESI; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 77954817499     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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