Going Back to the Roots: The Need to Link Plant Functional Biology with Vadose Zone Processes

• Published in: Procedia environmental sciences Vol. 19; pp. 379 - 383
• Main Authors: van der Ploeg, Martine J., Teuling, Adriaan J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 2013
• Subjects: climate; climate change; crop yield; drought; ecosystems; genome; habitats; mathematical models; plant available water; Roots; soil water content; soil water potential; soil-plant-atmosphere interactions; upscaling; vadose zone; vegetation; water holding capacity; water shortages; water uptake; upscaling; Roots; ecosystems

Soil plant atmosphere continuum concepts used in vadose zone hydrology approach plants as physical entities. This approach has proven very valuable in the past decades. The need to upscale such concepts provokes the question if plant functional biology should be considered, as larger scales also imp...