The use of stable isotopes to study ecosystem gas exchange

Oecologia

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 297-311

  Yakir, Dan ^a   Sternberg, Leonel Da Silveira Lobo ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon 13; Ecosystem CO2 exchange; Ecosystem discrimination; Evapotranspiration; Oxygen 18

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GAS EXCHANGE; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0034082175     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420051016     Document Type: Article

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