The effect of soil surface sealing on vegetation water uptake along a dry climatic gradient

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 7452-7466

  Sela, Shai ^a   Svoray, Tal ^a   Assouline, Shmuel ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

surface sealing; vegetation water uptake

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS;

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LYSIMETER EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING; RAINFALL INTENSITY; SOIL SURFACE SEALING; SURFACE SEALING; WATER UPTAKE;

VEGETATION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BARE SOIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DICOTYLEDON; EVAPORATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; LYSIMETER; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RESILIENCE; SEALING; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER UPTAKE;

ISRAEL; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

SARCOPOTERIUM SPINOSUM;

EID: 84944442083     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017109     Document Type: Article

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