Plant diversity effects on the water balance of an experimental grassland

Ecohydrology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1378-1391

  Leimer, Sophia ^a   Kreutziger, Yvonne ^b   Rosenkranz, Stephan ^c   Beßler, Holger ^d   Engels, Christof ^d   Hildebrandt, Anke ^b   Oelmann, Yvonne ^e   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^f   Wirth, Christian ^g   Wilcke, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Evapotranspiration; Plant diversity; Soil water flux; The Jena Experiment; Water content

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER CONTENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODEL; JENA EXPERIMENT; PLANT DIVERSITY; PLANT SPECIES RICHNESS; SOIL WATER BALANCE MODEL; SOIL WATER FLUXES; SPECIFIC FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 84911448702     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1464     Document Type: Article

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