Influence of groundwater on plant water use and productivity: Development of an integrated ecosystem - Variably saturated soil water flow model

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 189-190, Issue , 2014, Pages 198-210

  Soylu, Mehmet Evren ^a,b   Kucharik, Christopher J ^a   Loheide, Steven P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecosystem modeling; AgroIBIS VSF; Evapotranspiration; Groundwater; Hydrus 1D; Net primary productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894319200     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.01.019     Document Type: Article

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