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Intensive or extensive use of soil moisture: Plant strategies to cope with stochastic water availability
Graduate Program in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Graduate Program in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Dipartimento di Idraulica, Transporti e Infrastrutture Civili, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Dipartimento di Idraulica, Transporti e Infrastrutture Civili, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
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.
Received 25 January 2001; accepted 16 July 2001; .
Citation: (2001), Intensive or extensive use of soil moisture: Plant strategies to cope with stochastic water availability, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(23), 4495–4497.
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