Transpiration and annual water balance of Aleppo pine in a semiarid region: Implications for forest management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 298, Issue , 2013, Pages 39-51

  Ungar, Eugene David ^a   Rotenberg, Eyal ^b   Raz Yaseef, Naama ^b   Cohen, Shabtai ^a   Yakir, Dan ^b   Schiller, Gabriel ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climate change; Evapotranspiration; Forest water balance; Pinus halepensis; Sap flow; Thinning

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION LOSS; MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS; PINUS HALEPENSIS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SAP FLOW; THINNING; WATER BALANCE;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SAP FLOW; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL WATER; THINNING; TRANSPIRATION; UNDERSTORY; WATER BUDGET;

CLIMATES; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; ISRAEL; PINUS BRUTIA; PINUS HALEPENSIS; RAIN; SAP; THINNING; TRANSPIRATION; WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

ISRAEL; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 84875785030     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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