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The role of water availability in controlling coupled vegetation-atmosphere dynamics.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The role of water availability in controlling coupled vegetation-atmosphere dynamics./
Author:	Scanlon, Todd Michael.
Description:	148 p.
Notes:	Adviser: John D. Albertson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-09B
Subject:	Environmental Sciences -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3065124
ISBN:	0493839224

The role of water availability in controlling coupled vegetation-atmosphere dynamics.
Scanlon, Todd Michael.

The role of water availability in controlling coupled vegetation-atmosphere dynamics. - 148 p.

Adviser: John D. Albertson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2002.

This work examines how water availability affects vegetation structure and vegetation-atmosphere exchange of water, carbon, and energy for a savanna ecosystem. The study site is the Kalahari Transect (KT), in southern Africa, which follows a north-south decline in mean annual rainfall from &sim;1600 mm/yr to &sim;250 mm/yr between the latitudes 12°–26°S. Eddy covariance (EC) flux measurements taken over a time frame of 1–9 days at four sites along the transect during the wet (growing) season revealed that the ecosystem water use efficiency for the sites, defined as the ratio of net carbon flux to evapotranspiration, decreased with increasing mean annual rainfall. EC data were used to parameterize a large eddy simulation model, which was applied over a heterogeneous remotely-sensed surface. Water availability for the vegetation was found to affect the relative controls (structural vs. meteorological) on the spatial distribution of vegetation fluxes. When the spatial distribution of vapor pressure deficit, <italic>D</italic>, was most predictable (i.e. non water-limiting conditions) it was unimportant in shaping the distribution of the vegetation fluxes, while at times when <italic>D</italic> was least predictable (i.e. water-limiting conditions) it was most important. This observation is explained by the relative degree of vegetation-atmosphere coupling and the complexity of the non-local effects on <italic>D </italic>, both of which are dependent upon water availability

ISBN: 0493839224Subjects--Topical Terms:

1260465
Environmental Sciences

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