The effect of trees on preferential flow and soil infiltrability in an agroforestry parkland in semiarid Burkina Faso

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3342-3354

  Bargues Tobella A ^a   Reese, H ^a   Almaw, A ^a   Bayala, J ^b   Malmer, A ^a   Laudon, H ^a   Ilstedt, U ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b West and Central Africa Regional Office   (Mali)

Author keywords

agroforestry parklands; Brilliant Blue FCF; dry lands; infiltration; open woodlands; preferential flow; rainfall simulations; semiarid tropics; termites; trees

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; INFILTRATION; REFORESTATION; SOILS;

AGROFORESTRY; BRILLIANT BLUE FCF; DRY LAND; OPEN WOODLANDS; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; RAINFALL SIMULATIONS; SEMIARID TROPICS; TERMITES; TREES;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AGROFORESTRY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFILTRATION; PHOTOGRAPH; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RECHARGE; SEMIARID REGION; TERMITE; TRACER; TREE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCE; WOODLAND;

AGRICULTURE; REFORESTATION; SOIL; TERMITES; TREES; TROPICS;

BURKINA FASO;

ISOPTERA;

EID: 84899044274     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR015197     Document Type: Article

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