Approximately 1 billion ha of the global land surface is currently salt-affected, representing
about 7% of the earth's land surface. Whereas most of it results from natural geochemical …

The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services
presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil …

The Soil Water Atmosphere Plant (SWAP) model simulates transport of water, solutes, and
heat in the vadose zone in interaction with vegetation development. Special features of the …

Abstract Background and Aims Stomatal closure allows plants to promptly respond to water
shortage. Although the coordination between stomatal regulation, leaf and xylem hydraulics …

Soil mechanical impedance, hypoxia and water stress are the main soil physical causes of
reduced root growth, but they are rarely included in root growth models. The aim of this work …

SWAP 3.2 simulates transport of water, solutes and heat in the vadose zone. It describes a
domain from the top of canopy into the groundwater which may be in interaction with a …

Many hydrological models including root water uptake (RWU) do not consider the dimension
of root system hydraulic architecture (HA) because explicitly solving water flow in such a …

Core Ideas Parameters of different RWU models were optimized using data from a rhizotron
facility. The same soil hydraulic properties were obtained for models considering RWU …

Plant water uptake and plant and soil water status are important for the soil water balance
and plant growth. They depend on atmospheric water demand and the accessibility of soil …

The stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen (δ2H and δ18O, respectively) have been
widely used to investigate tree water source partitioning. These tracers have shed new light …