Spatio-temporal variability of root zone soil moisture in artificially revegetated and natural ecosystems at an arid desert area, NW China

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 100-112

  Pan, Yan Xia ^a   Wang, Xin Ping ^a   Zhang, Ya Feng ^a   Hu, Rui ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Representative location; Soil moisture content; Soil properties; Temporal stability

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; STABILITY; TEXTURES; VEGETATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

HIGH TEMPORAL STABILITY; ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURES; SOIL MOISTURE ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL STABILITY; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURE CONTENTS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ARID REGION; CORRELATION; DESERT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NONLINEARITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROFILE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; NINGXIA HUIZU; SHAPOTOU;

EID: 84926636491     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.04.019     Document Type: Article

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