Rio Grande Basin Initiative

2002-03 Deliverables

Task 5 Research
Principal Investigator(s): Keith Owens

  1. Develop one year of water use estimates from establishing shrubs (6 species, 3 replications) by January 2003.
    1. Estimates made monthly through the summer growing season.
    2. Growth rates recorded relative to soil water availability.
    3. Actual water use by soil depth.
  2. Identify proper irrigation depths by studying soil water depletion patterns under shrubs by January 2003.
  3. Develop Web page of native landscape shrubs and water use rates by May 2003.
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