Groundwater uptake by woody vegetation in a semiarid oak savanna

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Miller, Gretchen R ^a,b   Chen, Xingyuan ^a   Rubin, Yoram ^a   Ma, Siyan ^c   Baldocchi, Dennis D ^c  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; DIRECT AND INDIRECT METHODS; DRY SEASONS; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; GROUND WATER LEVEL; GROUNDWATER RESERVES; GROWING SEASON; HUMAN CONSUMPTION; OAK SAVANNA; OAK TREE; PLANT GROWTH; QUERCUS; RAPID CHANGES; SAP FLOW; SEMIARID LANDSCAPE; SOIL LAYER; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; STUDY SITES; UPTAKE RATE; WATER STORAGE; WOODY VEGETATION;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; VEGETATION;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

BEDROCK; DECIDUOUS TREE; DICOTYLEDON; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; METAVOLCANIC ROCK; SAVANNA; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; WATER DEPTH; WATER FLOW; WATER STORAGE; WATER UPTAKE;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; GROUND WATER; MOISTURE CONTENT; PLANTS; SOIL; WATER RESOURCES;

QUERCUS DOUGLASII;

EID: 77958511005     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008902     Document Type: Article

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