Quantifying topographic and vegetation effects on the transfer of energy and mass to the critical zone

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Rasmussen, Craig ^a   Pelletier, Jon D ^b   Troch, Peter A ^a   Swetnam, Tyson L ^a   Chorover, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FORESTRY; PRODUCTION CONTROL; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ENERGY AND MASS TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS; POWER LAW RELATIONSHIP; SEMIARID ENVIRONMENTAL; VEGETATION EFFECTS; WATER AND ENERGIES; WATER REDISTRIBUTION;

MASS TRANSFER;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MASS TRANSFER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMIARID REGION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84942001321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2014.07.0102     Document Type: Article

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