Hydrological partitioning in the critical zone: Recent advances and opportunities for developing transferable understanding of water cycle dynamics

PD Brooks, J Chorover, Y Fan… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrology is an integrative discipline linking the broad array of water‐related research with
physical, ecological, and social sciences. The increasing breadth of hydrological research …

Application of ground penetrating radar methods in soil studies: A review

K Zajícová, T Chuman - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
Applications of ground penetrating radar (GPR) in soil surveys promise cost and time
benefits together with the possibility of repeating surveys at the same locations due to the …

Methods for estimating root biomass and production in forest and woodland ecosystem carbon studies: A review

SD Addo-Danso, CE Prescott, AR Smith - Forest Ecology and Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Fine and coarse roots are key contributors to belowground net primary productivity, and play
critical roles in the biogeochemical cycling of forest and woodland ecosystems. Despite their …

The decomposition of fine and coarse roots: their global patterns and controlling factors

X Zhang, W Wang - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Fine root decomposition represents a large carbon (C) cost to plants and serves as a
potential soil C source, as well as a substantial proportion of net primary productivity. Coarse …

The geophysical toolbox applied to forest ecosystems–A review

B Loiseau, SD Carrière, D Jougnot, K Singha… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studying the forest subsurface is a challenge because of its heterogeneous nature and
difficult access. Traditional approaches used by ecologists to characterize the subsurface …

Intraspecific variation in the use of water sources by the circum‐Mediterranean conifer Pinus halepensis

J Voltas, D Lucabaugh, MR Chambel… - New …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The relevance of interspecific variation in the use of plant water sources has been
recognized in drought‐prone environments. By contrast, the characterization of intraspecific …

On the inter‐and intra‐annual variability of ecosystem evapotranspiration and water use efficiency of an oak savanna and annual grassland subjected to booms and …

D Baldocchi, S Ma, J Verfaillie - Global Change Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Whether annual evapotranspiration of native ecosystems is increasing or decreasing with
time as CO2 concentrations are rising, the climate is warming and rainfall experiences …

How will land use affect air temperature in the surface boundary layer? Lessons learned from a comparative study on the energy balance of an oak savanna and …

D Baldocchi, S Ma - Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated the effect of land use on differences in air temperature. We based our
analysis on a decade of weather and energy flux measurements, collected over two …

A deuterium-based labeling technique for the investigation of rooting depths, water uptake dynamics and unsaturated zone water transport in semiarid environments

M Beyer, P Koeniger, M Gaj, JT Hamutoko, H Wanke… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Non-or minimum-invasive methods for the quantification of rooting depths of plants are rare,
in particular in (semi-) arid regions; yet, this information is crucial for the parameterization of …

Ground penetrating radar: a case study for estimating root bulking rate in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)

A Delgado, DB Hays, RK Bruton, H Ceballos, A Novo… - Plant methods, 2017 - Springer
Background Understanding root traits is a necessary research front for selection of favorable
genotypes or cultivation practices. Root and tuber crops having most of their economic …