Sapflow+: A four-needle heat-pulse sap flow sensor enabling nonempirical sap flux density and water content measurements

New Phytologist

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 306-317

  Vandegehuchte, Maurits W ^a   Steppe, Kathy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Heat capacity; Heat pulse; Moisture content; Sap flow; Sap flux density; Sensor; Thermal conductivity; Thermal diffusivity

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DECIDUOUS TREE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HEAT CAPACITY; MODEL VALIDATION; MOISTURE CONTENT; SAP FLOW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSOR; STEM; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WATER CONTENT; WOOD;

AIR; ARTICLE; BEECH; CALIBRATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAT; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EXUDATE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AIR; CALIBRATION; FAGUS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HOT TEMPERATURE; LINEAR MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EXUDATES; WATER;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 84865536048     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04237.x     Document Type: Article

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