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Deep roots mitigate drought impacts on tropical trees despite limited quantitative contribution to transpiration
Deep rooting is considered a central drought-mitigation trait with vast impact on ecosystem water cycling. Despite its importance, …
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Vegetation controls spatial patterns of soil water isotopes in a tropical dry forest and UAV’s can help to predict them
Analyzing water stable isotopes in soils and plants is a key method to identify the water sources for transpiration. However, the …
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Thermal imaging of increment cores: a new method to estimate sapwood depth in trees
The cells in tree sapwood form a network of interconnected conduits which enables the transport of water and nutrients from the tree …
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Tracing plant source water dynamics during drought by continuous transpiration measurements: An in-situ stable isotope approach
The isotopic composition of xylem water (δX) is of considerable interest for plant source water studies. In-situ monitored isotopic …
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In situ monitoring of tree water uptake depths, storage and transport reveals different strategies during drought and recovery (Conference presentation)
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Dynamic processes require appropriate methods to capture them:Why in-situ water stable isotope monitoring needs to become a standard method in forest hydrological research
As a consequence of global change, forests worldwide are undergoing a restructuring process. The expectations for forests of the future …
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Continuous in situ measurements of water stable isotopes in soils, tree trunk and root xylem: Field approval
Rationale New methods to measure stable isotopes of soil and tree water directly in the field enable us to increase the temporal …
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Ecosystem fluxes during drought and recovery in an experimental forest
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On the Spatio-Temporal Under-Representation of Isotopic Data in Ecohydrological Studies
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Evaporation loss along the Calueque-Oshakati Canal in the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin (Northern Namibia): evidence from stable isotopes and hydrochemistry
Since 1973, Kunene River water has been carried from the Calueque reservoir in Angola along a 160 km open concrete canal to the town of …
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A preliminary isotope-based evapotranspiration partitioning approach for tropical Costa Rica
Spatially and seasonally distributed information on transpiration (T) fluxes is limited in the tropics. Here, we applied a coupled …
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Causes and consequences of pronounced variation in the isotope composition of plant xylem water
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In situ measurements of soil and plant water isotopes: a review of approaches, practical considerations and a vision for the future
The number of ecohydrological studies involving water stable isotope measurements has been increasing steadily due to technological …
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Borehole Equilibration: Testing a New Method to Monitor the Isotopic Composition of Tree Xylem Water in situ
Forest water use has been difficult to quantify. One promising approach is to measure the isotopic composition of plant water, e.g., …
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Soil water balance in the Lake Chad Basin using stable water isotopes and chloride of soil profiles
The Lake Chad Basin (LCB) is an endorheic transboundary catchment highly vulnerable to drought. For effective groundwater management, …
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Ideas and perspectives: Tracing terrestrial ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes – challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary perspective
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