Comparative water use by maize, perennial crops, restored prairie, and poplar trees in the US Midwest

Water use by plant communities across years of varying water availability indicates how terrestrial water balances will respond to climate change and variability as well as to land cover change. Perennial biofuel crops, likely grown mainly on marginal lands of limited water availability, provide an...

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Main Authors: S K Hamilton, M Z Hussain, A K Bhardwaj, B Basso, G P Robertson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064015