Soil Water Repellency Dynamics in Pine and Eucalypt Plantations in Portugal – A High-resolution Time Series

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1334-1343

  Santos, Juliana M ^a   Verheijen, Frank G A ^a   Tavares Wahren, Filipa ^b   Wahren, Andreas ^b   Feger, Karl Heinz ^b   Bernard Jannin, Léonard ^a   Rial Rivas, María E ^a   Keizer, Jacob J ^a   Nunes, Joao P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

hydrophobicity; monitoring; rainfall; soil moisture content; transition zone

Indexed keywords

COPYRIGHTS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MONITORING; RAIN; REFORESTATION;

ABRUPT TRANSITION; ANTECEDENT RAINFALL; EUCALYPT PLANTATIONS; SOIL WATER REPELLENCY; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSITION ZONES; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURE CONTENTS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84884307387     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2251     Document Type: Article

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