Effects of Crop Height on Evaporation from Lucerne and Wheat Grown in Lysimeters under Advective Conditions in the Sudan
- 1 January 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Experimental Agriculture
- Vol. 1 (4) , 289-298
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s001447970002158x
Abstract
Summary A simple but reliable type of drainage lysimeter was used to measure evaporation rates from lucerne and wheat and these were compared with calculated estimates of evaporation. Plant height was found to have an important effect on the amount of water lost from a plant cover, which also varied between two different species of crop of similar heights. Using two different soil types, maintained at a high moisture status, the rate of water loss was not influenced by the type of soil in which the plants were grown.Keywords
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