[PDF] Top 20 Desert shrub stemflow and its significance in soil moisture replenishment

... Abstract. Stemflow of xerophytic shrubs represents a signif- icant component of water replenishment to the soil-root sys- tem influencing water utilization of plant roots at the stand scale, ... See full document

... Although stemflow may be volumetrically minor com- pared to throughfall at the stand scale, it has a significant influence on runoff generation, soil erosion, groundwater recharge, soil ... See full document

... produced stemflow at more rainfall events (71 events) than those of ...Comparatively, stemflow yield during rains of 1–2 mm was an extra bene- fit for ...of stemflow during light rains, the ... See full document

... The scores for each attribute are shown in Appendix 2 and the rankings generated using the river. Because the rainfall profile in the Gisborne district differs from that of the Canterbury region where the method was ... See full document

... Saharan desert, illuminated and non- illuminated Zabol, illuminated and non- illuminated Ankara soil solutions and illuminated and non-illuminated deionized water were utilized; For soil solutions, ... See full document

... Winterfat is a small, half-shrub found in various amounts on most desert ranges of Utah and is generally considered a valuable forage plant both from the stand-[r] ... See full document

... Shiv Kumar and Singh (1987) found increased seed yield with supplementary irrigations due to extension of seed filling period of chickpea crops sown between mid-·Nov t[r] ... See full document

... Irrigation of soil with treated municipal wastewater can be treated as a last step of purification thereof. Soils irrigated with substantial doses of wastewater can induce anoxic conditions in which nitrate (NO 3 ... See full document

... The functions and photos of our actual fulfillment are shown from Figures 8 to Figures 11. Function test: The fan will turn on the fan to achieve the heat dissipation function when the indoor temperature is 30 ℃. When ... See full document

... The soil nitrogen cycle con- ceptual model includes the mineralization process and non- biological nitrate fixation modelled using zero order ...nitrate soil plant uptake, abiotic absorption and ... See full document

... and soil-water relations (Lee, 1997 and Parkinson et ...that, soil thermal regime under particular mulching materials is different from that of bare soil, where soil temperature often being ... See full document

... The Sagebrush-grass type was dominated by big sagebrush (Artimisia tridentata) w i t h an understory of bunchgrasses such as beardless wheatgrass (Agro- pyrom inerm[r] ... See full document

... with soil. The boundary of the domain includes the top soil surface, the far-field bottom face and four vertical faces as well as the interior and exterior surfaces of heat exchanger pipes and the inlet and ... See full document

... of soil (tillage) consists of many different operations and consumes a lot of energy, time and other ...the soil without compromising the requirements of quality (Páltik et ... See full document

... capacitive soil moisture sensor, another twelve soil samples were ...capacitive soil moisture ...the soil moisture content in percentage, whereas y value is calculated ... See full document

... Estimates of aboveground litter standing crops (oven-dry gm nr2 ) in Atriplex- and Ceratoides- dominated communities, Curlew Valley, Utah.. This was done on the assumption that, if the c[r] ... See full document

... a soil moisture database as a method to sys- tematically estimate the SWBCs of farmland in dryland re- gions, where the principal soils are coarse (Grayson et ...occurring soil aridifica- tion and ... See full document

... surface soil moisture retrievals into runoff estimates produced by a hydrologic ...antecedent soil moisture conditions in the hope that this will aid in the sub- sequent estimation of ... See full document

... of significance (P-value) of soil bulk density (SBD) and soil moisture at summer maize sowing (SMS), soil moisture at silking stages (SMR), soil moisture at ... See full document

... loessial soil slopes of the Port Hills, Christchurch, are affected by varia- tions in soil moisture content ...cause soil hardness to dramatically change their effect on rockfall ...of ... See full document