Exchange of carbon dioxide by a deciduous forest: Response to interannual climate variability

Science

Volumn 271, Issue 5255, 1996, Pages 1576-1578

  Goulden, Michael L ^a   Munger, J William ^a   Fan, Song Miao ^a   Daube, Bruce C ^a   Wofsy, Steven C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SNOW; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

USA, NEW ENGLAND;

EID: 0029667226     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5255.1576     Document Type: Article

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41. This work was supported by grants to Harvard University from the U.S. National Science Foundation (BSR-8919300, DEB-9411975), the U.S National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NAGW-3082), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through the Northeast Regional Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC, DOE Cooperative Agreement DE-FC03-90ER61010), and the Terrestrial Carbon Processes program (DE-FG02-95ER62002), and by Harvard University (Harvard Forest and Division of Applied Sciences) We thank A Goldstein, D Button, M Potosnak, and S Roy for technical support, and K. Moore and D. Fitzjarrald for unpublished data and helpful discussions