Depth of soil water uptake by tropical rainforest trees during dry periods: Does tree dimension matter?

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1191-1201

  Stahl, Clément ^a,b   Hérault, Bruno ^c,d   Rossi, Vivien ^d   Burban, Benoit ^a   Bréchet, Claude ^e   Bonal, Damien ^e  

^a Campus Agronomique   (France)

^b UMR SELMET   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^d CIRAD   (France)

^e LERFoB   (France)

Author keywords

Deuterium; Oxygen; Root; Soil water; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DEUTERIUM; DROUGHT; DRY SEASON; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFOREST; ROOT; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL WATER; TRANSPIRATION; TROPICAL FOREST; WATER UPTAKE;

DEUTERIUM; OXYGEN; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FRENCH GUIANA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; SEASON; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; XYLEM;

BIOMASS; DEUTERIUM; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; FRENCH GUIANA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SEASONS; SOIL; TREES; WATER; XYLEM;

EID: 84888332180     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2724-6     Document Type: Article

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