Biomass and CO2 flux in wet sedge tundras: Responses to nutrients, temperature, and light

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-97

  Shaver, G R ^a,b   Johnson, L C ^a   Cades, D H ^a   Murray, G ^a   Laundre, J A ^a   Rastetter, E B ^a   Nadelhoffer, K J ^a   Giblin, A E ^a  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic tundra; Biomass; CO2 flux; Ecosystem respiration; Gross ecosystem production; Light; Long term manipulation; Net ecosystem production; Nutrients; Photosynthesis; Species composition; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; LIGHT INTENSITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; TEMPERATURE; TUNDRA;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

CAREX; CAREX CORDORRHIZA; CYPERACEAE; ERIOPHORUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM; JUNCUS;

EID: 0031696118     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1998)068[0075:bacfiw]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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