TY - JOUR
T1 - Intensive or extensive use of soil moisture
T2 - Plant strategies to cope with stochastic water availability
AU - Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio
AU - Porporato, Amilcare Michele M.
AU - Laio, Francesco
AU - Ridolfi, Luca
PY - 2001/1/1
Y1 - 2001/1/1
N2 - Some plants rely on a dependable winter recharge, as opposed to others that quickly respond to the intermittent and uncertain rainfall during the growing season. Using a stochastic model for the soil moisture process and a quantitative measure of plant water stress, we find climate, soil, and vegetation characteristics leading to the dominance or possible coexistence of these two strategies of water use.
AB - Some plants rely on a dependable winter recharge, as opposed to others that quickly respond to the intermittent and uncertain rainfall during the growing season. Using a stochastic model for the soil moisture process and a quantitative measure of plant water stress, we find climate, soil, and vegetation characteristics leading to the dominance or possible coexistence of these two strategies of water use.
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U2 - 10.1029/2001GL012905
DO - 10.1029/2001GL012905
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035678841
SN - 0094-8276
VL - 28
SP - 4495
EP - 4497
JO - Geophysical Research Letters
JF - Geophysical Research Letters
IS - 23
ER -