Winter production of CO2 and N2O from alpine tundra: Environmental controls and relationship to inter-system C and N fluxes

Oecologia

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 403-413

  Brooks, Paul D ^a   Schmidt, Steven K ^a   Williams, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Nitrous oxide; Snow cover; Trace gas flux

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030889026     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008814     Document Type: Article

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