Dynamic interactions of ecohydrological and biogeochemical processes in water-limited systems

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Lixin ^a   Manzoni, Stefano ^b   Ravi, Sujith ^c   Riveros Iregui, Diego ^d   Caylor, Kelly ^e  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drylands; Ecohydrology; ESA centennial paper; Evapotranspiration; Hysteresis; Isotope; Modeling; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978370454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES15-00122.1     Document Type: Article

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