Monitoring and modelling of soil–plant interactions: the joint use of ERT, sap flow and eddy covariance data to characterize the volume of an orange tree root zone

Cassiani, G.; Boaga, J.; Vanella, D.; Perri, M. T.; Consoli, S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2213-2015

Articles | Volume 19, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2213-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2213-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 5

Research article

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08 May 2015

Research article |

| 08 May 2015

Monitoring and modelling of soil–plant interactions: the joint use of ERT, sap flow and eddy covariance data to characterize the volume of an orange tree root zone

G. Cassiani, J. Boaga, D. Vanella, M. T. Perri, and S. Consoli

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SC C5787: 'Comment on “Monitoring and modelling of soil–plant interactions: the joint use of ERT, sap flow and Eddy Covariance data to characterize the volume of an orange tree root zone” by Cassiani et al.', Jaivime Evaristo, 23 Dec 2014
- AC C6122: 'reply to Jaivime Evaristo', Giorgio Cassiani, 19 Jan 2015
RC C5961: 'Review Comment for hess-2014-446', Ty P. A. Ferre, 07 Jan 2015
- AC C6124: 'reply to Referee 1', Giorgio Cassiani, 19 Jan 2015
RC C5978: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Jan 2015
- AC C6126: 'reply to referee 2', Giorgio Cassiani, 19 Jan 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (13 Feb 2015) by Marnik Vanclooster

AR by Giorgio Cassiani on behalf of the Authors (28 Mar 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (17 Apr 2015) by Marnik Vanclooster

Short summary

The paper presents an integrated approach to monitoring root water uptake and link this information to the plant transpiration measured by sap flow and eddy covariance. The monitoring of soil conditions is achieved using 3-D electrical resistivity tomography. This ensemble of data can be used jointly to model the soil-plant interactions and identify the extent and efficiency of the root zone in front of existing irrigation schemes. A case study is presented regarding an orange orchard in Sicily.