Modeling water availability for trees in tropical forests

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1202-1213

  Wagner, Fabien ^a   Hérault, Bruno ^a   Stahl, Clément ^b   Bonal, Damien ^c   Rossi, Vivien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^b Campus Agronomique   (France)

^c LERFoB   (France)

Author keywords

Amazonian rainforest; Bayesian inference; Time domain reflectometer; Tree drought stress; Water balance model

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT STRESS; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MICROMETEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SOIL WATER; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TROPICAL FOREST; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER BUDGET; WATER EXCHANGE;

AMAZONIA; FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 80053643440     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.04.012     Document Type: Article

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