Depth of water uptake in woody plants relates to groundwater level and vegetation structure along a topographic gradient in a neotropical savanna

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 77, Issue , 2012, Pages 259-266

  Rossatto, Davi Rodrigo ^a   de Carvalho Ramos Silva, Lucas ^b   Villalobos Vega, Randoll ^c   Sternberg, Leonel da Silveira Lobo ^c   Franco, Augusto César ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Savanna; Stable isotopes; Topographic gradient; Vegetation structure; Water uptake

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PARTITIONING; ROOT SYSTEM; SAVANNA; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER DEPTH; WATER LEVEL; WATER UPTAKE; WOODLAND;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84455193467     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2011.11.025     Document Type: Article

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