Modelling vegetation water-use and groundwater recharge as affected by climate variability in an arid-zone Acacia savanna woodland

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 519, Issue PA, 2014, Pages 1084-1096

  Chen, Chao ^a,b,c   Eamus, Derek ^a,b   Cleverly, James ^b   Boulain, Nicolas ^b   Cook, Peter ^a,c   Zhang, Lu ^c   Cheng, Lei ^c   Yu, Qiang ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Groundwater recharge; Savanna woodland; Vegetation water use; WAVES

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; SAVANNA WOODLAND; WATER USE;

WAVES;

ARID REGION; CLIMATE VARIATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LEAF AREA INDEX; LEGUME; RECHARGE; SAVANNA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER USE; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

ACACIA;

EID: 84907688235     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.08.032     Document Type: Article

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