Linking root traits and soil moisture redistribution under Achnatherum splendens using electrical resistivity tomography and dye experiments

Quantity or Efficiency: Strategies of Self‐Organized Xerophytic Shrubs to Harvest Rain

“…Such work would employ classical methods (e.g., the dye tracing) (Liang et al., 2011; Nulsen et al., 1986) as well as more recent techniques (e.g., electrical resistivity tomography, ground‐penetrating radar, water stable isotopes, wavelet analysis, etc.) (Gardner et al., 2017; Guo et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2020; Zuo et al., 2021) to better understand the preferential paths of water infiltration as well as model development of water transport through the vadose zone.…”

Effect of Slope Aspect on Plant Above‐ and Belowground Functional Traits of Alpine Meadow on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau, China

“…The climate is characterized by a cool and short growing season, with mean annual temperature of approximately −3.3°C and mean annual precipitation of approximately 400 mm. 70%–80% of the precipitation falls from July to September (Zuo et al., 2021). Parent material is dominated by Silurian slate, silicalite, and monzogranite.…”

Responses of soil water dynamics to precipitation events in an alpine meadow ecosystem of the Qinghai Lake Basin based on high‐precision lysimeter measurements

“…We used a threshold of À1% to identify potential downward spikes and a threshold of 5% to identify potential upward spikes (Wiekenkamp et al, 2016). We used ΔSVWC to describe the changes in the soil volumetric water content after precipitation infiltration, and it is the ratio of the peak SVWC to the antecedent SVWC for single precipitation events (Zuo et al, 2021). ΔSVWC 10 (ΔSVWC, the changes in the soil volumetric water content; the numbers represent the depth of the soil layers and the unit is cm).…”