Groundwater controls on vegetation composition and patterning in mountain meadows

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Lowry, Christopher S ^a   Loheide, Steven P ^b   Moore, Courtney E ^c   Lundquist, Jessica D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; BEST MODEL; CALIFORNIA; DISTRIBUTED WATERSHED MODELS; DOMINANT SPECIES; GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL; GROWING SEASON; HILLSLOPES; HOT SPOT; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; HYDROLOGIC REGIME; HYDROLOGIC SYSTEMS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; MOUNTAIN MEADOW; NON-PARAMETRIC; OXYGEN STRESS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIPARIAN ZONES; ROOT RESPIRATION; ROOT ZONE; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SIERRA NEVADA; SNOWMELT; VEGETATION COMMUNITY; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER STRESS; WATER TABLE DYNAMICS; WATER TABLES; YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; PARKS; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

GROUNDWATER;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROWING SEASON; LAND USE CHANGE; MEADOW; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESPIRATION; RHIZOSPHERE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SNOWMELT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER STRESS; WATER TABLE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 80053362826     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010086     Document Type: Article

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