Water table response to an experimental alley farming trial: Dissecting the spatial and temporal structure of the data

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1704-1720

  Noorduijn, S L ^a   Ghadouani, A ^a   Vogwill, R ^b   Smettem, K R J ^a   Leoendre, P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Crop Variety Testing Group   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Alley farming; Principal coordinates of neighbor matrices; Salinity; Tree belt; Variation partitioning; Water logging; Water table dynamics; Western australia

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; ALLEY CROPPING; BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EDGE EFFECT; HABITAT TYPE; HYDROGRAPH; PERENNIAL PLANT; PIEZOMETER; RECHARGE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SALINIZATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL PROFILE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE; VEGETATION COVER; WATER TABLE; WATERLOGGING;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CROP; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; TIME; TREE; PROCEDURES;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT ROOTS; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WATER; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77956446747     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1935.1     Document Type: Article

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