Salt marsh ecohydrological zonation due to heterogeneous vegetation-groundwater-surface water interactions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Moffett, Kevan B ^a   Gorelick, Steven M ^a   McLaren, Robert G ^b   Sudicky, Edward A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD DATA; GEOLOGICAL HETEROGENEITIES; GROUNDWATER DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER VELOCITY; HYDRAULIC CONDITIONS; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; PLANT WATER; PRESSURE HEADS; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; ROOT ZONE; ROOTING DEPTHS; SALT MARSH ECOSYSTEM; SALT MARSHES; SEDIMENT HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TIDAL DYNAMICS; WATER INTERACTIONS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DYNAMICS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFACE WATERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER SUPPLY; WETLANDS;

VEGETATION;

ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; ROOTING; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER USE;

EID: 84857467119     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010874     Document Type: Article

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