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Modelling the impacts of cover crop management strategies on the water use, carbon exchange and yield of olive orchards
Cover crops have long been proposed as an alternative soil management for minimizing erosion rates in olive stands while providing additional ecosystem services. However, the trade-off between these benefits a...
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Low winter temperatures induce a disturbance of water relations in field olive trees
Low winter temperatures induce an increase in the soil-to-trunk hydraulic resistance of field-grown olive trees resulting in a significant disturbance of their water relations.
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Aboveground respiratory CO2 effluxes from olive trees (Olea europaea L.)
The accurate assessment of respiration by woody vegetation, still a challenge in plant productivity models, is generally a problem of correctly scaling-up the process from organs to the whole plant. We used a ...