Ecohydrological feedbacks between salt accumulation and vegetation dynamics: Role of vegetation-groundwater interactions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Runyan, Christiane W ^a   D'Odorico, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; BISTABLE DYNAMICS; DEEP WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GROUNDWATER INTERACTION; HIGH SALINITY; HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS; LOW SALINITY; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; ROOT ZONE; SALT BALANCES; SALT LEVELS; SHALLOW WATER TABLES; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL SALINITY; STABLE STATE; UNDERLYING DYNAMICS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION FEEDBACKS;

AQUIFERS; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; FEEDBACK; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS; STATE FEEDBACK;

VEGETATION;

ACCUMULATION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; PLANT COMMUNITY; RHIZOSPHERE; RIVER BASIN; SALINITY; SOIL PROFILE; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER TABLE;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 78649767532     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009464     Document Type: Article

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