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Desai, Jayant Bhasker.Issue Date
1981Keywords
Hydrology.Plants -- Water requirements.
Microirrigation -- Southwestern States.
Landscape gardening -- Arizona -- Tucson.
Desert gardening.
Committee Chair
Fangmeier, Delmar D.
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The University of Arizona.Rights
Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.Abstract
Sixteen species of trees, shrubs and ground covers, commonly used in landscape designs in southern Arizona, were given high, medium, and low water treatments under trickle and spray irrigation systems. Annual water deliveries for these plant species were obtained. Well-distributed summer rains substantially reduced the irrigation needs of these plants, and all the plant species were reasonably maintained under trickle irrigation, with less than one-gallon-per-day water deliveries, except Mulberry. Plants were grouped into four categories according to their annual water deliveries, viz., very high, high, medium, and low water users. Trickle-irrigated plants made almost equal growth and maintained similar appearance as spray-irrigated plants, which were given more water. The data on plant growth increments were analyzed for selected ten plant species to determine the effects of reduced water treatments. None of the plant species showed significant linear or quadratic relationships with water levels except Privet, which showed significant linear relationship with high, medium, and low water treatments for plant height and plant spread.Type
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M.S.Degree Level
mastersDegree Program
Soils, Water and EngineeringGraduate College