Vegetation induced changes in the stable isotope composition of near surface humidity

Ecohydrology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 936-949

  Simonin, Kevin A ^a,b   Link, Percy ^a   Rempe, Daniella ^a   Miller, Scot ^c   Oshun, Jasper ^a   Bode, Colin ^a   Dietrich, William E ^a   Fung, Inez ^a   Dawson, Todd E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D excess; Transpiration; Water cycling; Water isotopes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CARRIER MOBILITY; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION; WATER VAPOR;

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; D-EXCESS; DIURNAL FLUCTUATIONS; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SURFACE EVAPORATION; WATER CYCLING; WATER ISOTOPE;

ISOTOPES;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST CANOPY; HUMIDITY; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METEORIC WATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION; WATER; WATER VAPOR;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901975099     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1420     Document Type: Article

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