Phreatophytes are deeply rooted plants that use groundwater to fulfill parts of their water needs (Thomas, 2014).
Groundwater discharge may also occur through the
phreatophyte vegetation (Prosopis flexuosa woodlands), estimated by Jobbagy et al.
Water uptake in woody riparian
phreatophytes of the Southwestern United States: A Stable Isotope Study.
Management of
phreatophyte and riparian vegetation for maximum multiple use values.
These diatomites, albeit bare of any perennial vegetation cover, exude small springs of highly saline waters and therefore play a determinant role in the distribution of the neighbouring vegetation almost entirely made of halophytes and
phreatophytes.
Riparian Vegetation--Vegetation growing along the banks of a small lake, river, swamp, or spring; also known as
phreatophytes, and riverine and riverain vegetation.
The marked seasonal phenology, independent of current soil moisture, would be expected of a deep-rooted
phreatophyte, but as indicated previously, Prosopis in the Jornada Basin is unlikely to have access to the water table, and small shrubs exhibit the same phenological patterns as do large shrubs.
0 maf, and
phreatophyte and operational efficiency losses of roughly 0.
Tamarix has been described as possessing inherently low water use efficiency (Anderson 1982), a characterization that has also been applied to aridland
phreatophytes in general (Smith and Nobel 1986).
Indirect evidence of a
phreatophyte intercepting rising capillary water and thereby affecting higher soils comes from Kushiev (2005), who reported that plantings of the Eurasian G.
Groundwater discharge by
phreatophyte shrubs in the Great Basin related to depth to groundwater.
Loheide SP, Butler JJ, Gorelick SM (2005) Estimation of groundwater consumption by
phreatophytes using diurnal water table fluctuations: a saturated-unsaturated flow assessment.
