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The measurement of water fluxes in plant ecosystems has been made by several methods which typically require a considerable amount of field instrumentation and equipment. Micro-meteorological data may be used to estimate the potential evapotranspirational flux (Pruitt, 1971) and large weighing lysimeters (Pruit and Angus, 1960) have been employed in agricultural and university research facilities (Armijo et al., 1972) to make this measurement gravimetrically. Small and large cuvettes or chambers (Tieszen, 1975) are also used to obtain physiological data on water loss by plants or plant organs in semiclosed or closed experimental systems (Koller, 1970).
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Koranda, J.J., Clegg, B., Stuart, M. (1978). Radio-Tracer Measurement of Transpiration in Tundra Vegetation, Barrow, Alaska. In: Tieszen, L.L. (eds) Vegetation and Production Ecology of an Alaskan Arctic Tundra. Ecological Studies, vol 29. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6307-4_15
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