Changes in hydrology and salinity accompanying a century of agricultural conversion in Argentina

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2367-2379

  Jayawickreme, Dushmantha H ^a   Santoni, Celina S ^b   Kim, John H ^a   Jobbágy, Esteban G ^b   Jackson, Robert B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Deforestation; Ecohydrology; Espinal province, argentina; Groundwater recharge; Land use change; Salinity; Salt leaching; Semiarid regions; Soil resistivity imaging; South America

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACCUMULATION; AQUIFER POLLUTION; CHLORIDE; DEFORESTATION; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOREGION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOELECTRIC FIELD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAND USE CHANGE; LEACHING; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RECHARGE; SALINE SOIL; SALINITY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROFILE; SOLUTE; SULFATE; SUSTAINABILITY; TRACER; VADOSE ZONE; WOODLAND;

AGRICULTURE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HISTORY; SALINITY; TIME; TREE; WATER CYCLE;

AGRICULTURE; ARGENTINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; SALINITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WATER CYCLE;

ARGENTINA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80053952359     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2086.1     Document Type: Article

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