Quantifying water savings from willow removal in Australian streams

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 926-935

  Doody, Tanya ^a,b   Benyon, Richard ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drought; Evapotranspiration; Murray River; Murray Darling Basin; Salix; Sawfly; Water use; Weed

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RIVERS; TRANSPIRATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY RIVER; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; SALIX; SAWFLY; SEMI PERMANENTS; STREAMBANKS; WATER USE; WATER-SAVING; WEED;

DROUGHT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECIDUOUS TREE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVERGREEN TREE; FLY; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SAP FLOW; SEASONALITY; STREAM; TRANSPIRATION; WATER BUDGET; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE; WEED;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLUID BALANCE; HEAT STRESS; WATER TREATMENT; WILLOW;

AUSTRALIA; DARLING BASIN; MURRAY BASIN; MURRAY RIVER;

NEMATUS VENTRALIS; SALIX;

EID: 78650521876     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.10.061     Document Type: Article

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