Quantifying transpirable soil water and its relations to tree water use dynamics in a water-limited pine forest

Ecohydrology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 409-419

  Klein, Tamir ^a   Rotenberg, Eyal ^a   Cohen Hilaleh, Ella ^a   Raz Yaseef, Naama ^a,b   Tatarinov, Fyodor ^a   Preisler, Yakir ^a   Ogée, Jérôme ^c   Cohen, Shabtai ^d   Yakir, Dan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

^d VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hydrological budget; Sap flow; Soil water retention; Water availability; Water potential

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE;

HYDROLOGICAL BUDGETS; SAP FLOW; SOIL WATER RETENTION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER POTENTIAL;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; SAP FLOW; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; TRANSPIRATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RETENTION; WATER USE;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; SOIL;

PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 84897513062     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1360     Document Type: Article

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