Soil Water Balance and Vegetation Dynamics in a Semi-arid Mediterranean Ecosystem
Ioannis N. Daliakopoulos,
Ioanna Panagea,
Luca Brocca,
Erik van den Elsen
Affiliations
Ioannis N. Daliakopoulos
Department of Agriculture, Hellenic Mediterranean University, 71410 Crete, Greece
Ioanna Panagea
Division of Soil and Water Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
Luca Brocca
Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council, 06128 Perugia, Italy
Erik van den Elsen
Team Soil, Water and Land Use, Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research (WUR), P.O. Box 47, 6700AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Under arid conditions, where water availability is the limiting factor for plant survival, water balance models can be used to explain vegetation dynamics. [...]
