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Optimum summer index and average potential water deficit.

Published online: 21 Dec 1971

Authors: Davis, N. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Optimum summer index is based on the formula I= 10TX + 20S-7R where TX is mean daily temperature (°F), S is mean daily sunshine (h) and R is total rai...

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Optimum summer index and average potential water deficit.

Published online: 11 Jan 1971

Authors: Davis, N. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Optimum summer index is based on the formula I = 10Tx + 20S-7R where Tx is mean daily temperature (°F), 5 mean daily sunshine (h) and R is total rainf...

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The physiology of drought resistance in the soy-bean plant (Glycine max). 1. The relationship between drought resistance and growth.

Published online: 01 Jan 1973

Authors: Read, D. J. & Bartlett, E. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Soyabeans were grown in pots at 20, 40, 60, 80 or 100% of field capacity or were allowed to wilt 1-5 times during the growth cycle. Small decreases in...

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A technique for determining resistance to mass transfer through the boundary layers of plants with complex structure.

Published online: 16 Nov 1969

Authors: Landsberg, J. J. & Ludlow, M. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Shoots of Picea sitchensis and Calluna vulgaris were covered with a thin layer of gypsum, which held sufficient water to give good estimates of evapor...

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Water use by irrigated cotton in the Sudan. 4. Water use, potential evaporation and yield.

Published online: 01 Jan 1976

Authors: Rijks, D. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Estimates of water used by irrigated cotton crops, obtained by micrometeorological methods, soil water sampling and lysimetry, were related to Penman'...

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A CLEWS nexus modeling approach to assess water security trajectories and infrastructure needs in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Published online: 26 Jun 2019

Authors: Muñoz-Castillo, R. & Miralles-Wilhelm, F. & Machado, K.

Content type: Bulletin

This working paper presents an up-to-date and prospective assessment of water security throughout the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, with a...

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Factors influencing survival of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza propagules during topsoil storage.

Published online: 13 May 1985

Authors: Miller, R. M. & Carnes, B. A. & Moorman, T. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The survival dynamics of VAM fungi were determined by bioassay for soils stored for 0.5-6 yr in topsoil stockpiles associated with a coal surface mine...

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Ecophysiology of tropical dry evergreen forest, Thailand: measured and modelled stomatal conductance of Hopea ferrea, a dominant canopy emergent.

Published online: 19 May 1997

Authors: Pitman, J. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The diurnal variation in leaf stomatal conductance of 3 canopy emergent trees (Hopea ferrea) was measured on 13 days over a 6-wk period (August-Septem...

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Transpiration of Helxine solierolii and the effect of drought.

Published online: 22 May 1970

Authors: Lake, J. V. & Postlethwaite, J. D. & Slack, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In 2 glasshouse experiments, one in summer, the other in winter, Helxine soleirolii growing in John Innes No. 1 potting compost was either irrigated s...

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Indices of plant water status: some comparisons within and between crop species.

Published online: 01 Jan 1976

Authors: Shepherd, W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Relationships between leaf relative water content (RWC), esmotic potential ( pi ), leaf water potential ( psi ) and leaf diffusion resistance (LDR) ar...

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