Soil moisture controls on phenology and productivity in a semi-arid critical zone

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 568, Issue , 2016, Pages 1227-1237

  Cleverly, James ^a   Eamus, Derek ^a   Restrepo Coupe, Natalia ^a   Chen, Chao ^b   Maes, Wouter ^a,c   Li, Longhui ^a   Faux, Ralph ^a   Santini, Nadia S ^a   Rumman, Rizwana ^a   Yu, Qiang ^a   Huete, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Climate extremes; Ecohydrology; Evergreen Acacia; Resilience; Semi arid woodland; Soil moisture carry over

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; MOISTURE CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); STORMS; WATER LEVELS;

CLIMATE EXTREMES; ECO-HYDROLOGY; EVERGREEN ACACIA; RESILIENCE; SEMI ARID;

SOIL MOISTURE;

CARBON; RAIN;

ECOHYDROLOGY; EVERGREEN FOREST; PHENOLOGY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; WOODLAND;

ACACIA; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANOPY; CANOPY COOLING; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTH CRITICAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST; HURRICANE; LAND DRAINAGE; PHENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RHIZOSPHERE; ROOT DISTRIBUTION; RUNOFF; SAND; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE SOIL; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA;

ACACIA; ACACIA ANEURA; POACEAE;

EID: 84969914690     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.142     Document Type: Article

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