Plant-Soil interactions in salt marsh environments: Experimental evidence from electrical resistivity tomography in the Venice Lagoon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6160-6166

  Boaga, Jacopo ^a   D'Alpaos, Andrea ^a   Cassiani, Giorgio ^a   Marani, Marco ^a,b   Putti, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLOODS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LAKES; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION;

CRITICAL ENVIRONMENT; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES; PLANT-SOIL INTERACTIONS; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES;

WETLANDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHREATIC ZONE; SALTMARSH; SOIL MOISTURE; SURVIVAL; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSPIRATION; WATER UPTAKE;

ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE LAGOON;

EID: 84907953996     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060983     Document Type: Article

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