Measuring and modeling water-related soil-vegetation feedbacks in a fallow plot

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1105-1118

  Ursino, N ^a   Cassiani, G ^a   Deiana, R ^a   Vignoli, G ^b   Boaga, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDBACK; IRRIGATION; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED IRRIGATIONS; DIFFERENT SOILS; GEOPHYSICAL METHODS; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; LOCAL MEASUREMENT; SOIL-VEGETATION; VEGETATION COVER;

INFILTRATION;

FALLOW; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFILTRATION; IRRIGATION; SOIL CRUST; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; VEGETATION COVER; WATER BUDGET; WEED CONTROL;

ITALY; SARDINIA;

EID: 84896962172     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-1105-2014     Document Type: Article

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