Temporal dynamics of soil moisture in a northern temperate mixed successional forest after a prescribed intermediate disturbance

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 180, Issue , 2013, Pages 22-33

  He, Lingli ^a   Ivanov, Valeriy Y ^a   Bohrer, Gil ^b   Thomsen, Julia E ^c   Vogel, Christoph S ^a   Moghaddam, Mahta ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

^c WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Girdling; Interception; LAI; Root uptake; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWING SEASON; INTERCEPTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

POPULUS;

EID: 84878794921     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.04.014     Document Type: Article

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