Year: 1991
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Windbreaks are being recommended for many areas of dryland Africa, although their effect on the area water balance is unknown. This study shows that a linear relationship exists between the leaf area and stem basal area of young neem trees The relationship remains linear into the dry season with a constant slope and a changing Intercept. Transpiration from individual trees, measured using a heat pulse velocity recorder. was scaled up to a windbreak by normalizing with stem basal area. For the unstrwsed windbreak calculated transpiration rates were 29.2 dm3 day-1 m-1.
Authors: Andrew Brenner, P. G. Jarvis, R.J. Vandenbeldt
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDGs: Life on land, Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W31469762