Root architecture of riparian trees: River cut-banks provide natural hydraulic excavation, revealing that cottonwoods are facultative phreatophytes

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 907-917

  Rood, Stewart B ^a   Bigelow, Sarah G ^a   Hall, Alexis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate; Floodplain forests; Image analysis; Poplars; Populus; Precipitation; Spruce; Water relations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; POPLARS; POPULUS; SPRUCE; WATER RELATIONS;

ARID REGIONS; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CLIMATE CHANGE; EXCAVATION; FORESTRY; HYDRAULICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT EXTRACTS; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

RIVERS;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HYDRAULICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PICEA; POPULUS; POPULUS ANGUSTIFOLIA; POPULUS BALSAMIFERA; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; PRECIPITATION; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; POPULUS; POPULUS ANGUSTIFOLIA; POPULUS BALSAMIFERA; POPULUS DELTOIDES; POPULUS FREMONTII; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA;

EID: 80052696131     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-011-0565-7     Document Type: Article

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