Isotopic analysis of water sources of mountainous plant uptake in a karst plateau of southwest China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 3666-3675

  Rong, Li ^a,b   Chen, Xi ^b   Chen, Xunhong ^c   Wang, Shijie ^a   Du, Xuelian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Mountainous plant; Soil water; Stable isotopes; Subcutaneous water

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS; FOREST SITES; FRACTURED ROCK; GUIZHOU PROVINCE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MOUNTAINOUS PLANT; PLANT SPECIES; PLANT STEMS; PLANT UPTAKE; ROCK FRACTURES; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOIL LAYER; SOIL WATER; SOUTHWEST CHINA; STABLE ISOTOPES; SUBCUTANEOUS WATER; WATER SOURCE; WATER STORAGE;

ISOTOPES; SOIL MOISTURE;

LANDFORMS;

DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; KARST; MOUNTAIN REGION; PLANT; PLATEAU; SOIL WATER; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATER STRESS; WATER UPTAKE;

CHINA; GUIZHOU; QINGZHEN PLATEAU;

EID: 80054848893     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8093     Document Type: Article

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