Equilibrium responses of global net primary production and carbon storage to doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide: Sensitivity to changes in vegetation nitrogen concentration

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-189

  David McGuire, A ^a   Melillo, Jerry M ^b   Kicklighter, David W ^b   Pan, Yude ^b   Xiao, Xiangming ^b   Helfrich, John ^b   Moore III, Berrien ^c   Vorosmarty, Charles J ^c   Schloss, Annette L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE INCREASE; CARBON STORAGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; VEGETATION;

EID: 0031470859     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97gb00059     Document Type: Article

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