Bibliography of Evapotranspiration with Special Emphasis on Riparian Vegetation

摘要

The scarcity of water in New Mexico has prompted the search for additional approaches to planning and management. Agriculture and riparian evapotranspiration (ET) is one of the larger loss components in the Middle Rio Grande hydrologic budget. Evapotranspiration has been studied for many years throughout the world and many methods have been proposed and implemented around the world. However, estimating ET in natural conditions is still a challenge to researchers. This bibliography was prepared in an effort to collect information related to methods and techniques used in measuring and/or estimating evapotranspiration of riparian and agricultural crops. It focuses on those studies the authors thought to be relevant to the ET of agricultural and riparian vegetation in the Middle Rio Grande with a major emphasis on the water use of phreatophytes such as saltcedar, cottonwood, Russian olive, and saltgrass. Evapotranspiration of agricultural crops have been studied and documented for many years but less is known about the riparian vegetation. The bibliography includes information on: (1) the methods and techniques used in the past and present in measuring and estimating ET in both agricultural and riparian vegetation; (2) riparian ecosystem changes and various methods of management and control of exotic species such as saltcedar; (3) water requirements of agricultural crops and riparian vegetation; and (4) crop coefficients based on heat units (growing degree days).