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Use Of Thermal Dissipation Probes To Estimate Water Loss Of Containerized Landscape Trees, Thayne Montague, Roger Kjelgren
Use Of Thermal Dissipation Probes To Estimate Water Loss Of Containerized Landscape Trees, Thayne Montague, Roger Kjelgren
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Granier style thermal dissipation probes (TDPs) have been used to estimate whole plant water use on a variety of tree and vine species. However, studies using TDPs and load cells (gravimetric water loss) to estimate water use of landscape tree species are rare. This research compared gravimetric water loss (extimated with load cells) of four containerized landscape tree species with water loss estimated with TDPs. Over a 66 day period, an experiment compared water loss of three established, 5.0 cm (2 in) caliper poplar (Populus nigra 'Italica') trees in 75-liter (20 gal) containers on load cells to TDP estimated water …