The carbon balance of tropical, temperate and boreal forests

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 715-740

  Malhi, Yadvinder ^a   Baldocchi, D D ^b   Jarvis, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Natl Oceanogr and Atmosph Admin   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosphere atmosphere interactions; Carbon dioxide; Eddy covariance; Forests; Global carbon cycle; Global change

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 0033036140     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1999.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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