soil moisture

Tree die-off in response to global-change-type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential field measurements

Authors:

Breshears, D. D., O. B. Myers, C. W. Myer, F. J. Barnes, C. B. Zou, C. D. Allen, N. G. McDowell, and W. T. Pockman

Source:

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (In Press)

Keywords:

drought; forestry; watershed; pinyon juniper; woodland; soil moisture; vegetation change

Soil water dynamics under low- versus high ponderosa pine stand density: ecohydrological functioning and restoration implications

Authors:

Zou, Chris B.; Breshears, David D.; Newman,B.D.; Wilcox, B.P.; Gard, M.O.

Source:

Ecohydrology (In Press)

Keywords:

restoration; forestry; ponderosa pine; soil moisture; vegetation change

Tight coupling between soil moisture and the surface radiation budget in semiarid environments: Implications for land-atmosphere interactions

Authors:

Small, E.; S. Kurc

Source:

Water Resources Research, Volume 39, Issue 10, p.1278 (2003)

URL:

http://ag.arizona.edu/srnr/research/wr/kurc/docs/2002WR001297.pdf

Keywords:

soil moisture; ground heat flux; soil temperature; net radiation; evapotranspiration; land-atmosphere interactions

Soil moisture variations and ecosystem-scale fluxes of water and carbon in semiarid grassland and shrubland

Authors:

Kurc, S. A.; E. E. Small

Source:

Water Resources Research, Volume 43, p.W06416 (2007)

URL:

http://ag.arizona.edu/srnr/research/wr/kurc/docs/2006WR005011.pdf

Keywords:

soil moisture; hydrologic processes; ecosystem processes; carbon; semiarid; grasslands; shrublands