Tropical pasture carbon cycling: Relationships between C source/sink strength, above-ground biomass and grazing

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 367-376

  Wilsey, Brian J ^a,b   Parent, Gabrielle ^b   Roulet, Nigel T ^b   Moore, Tim R ^b   Potvin, Catherine ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

C cycle; Grasslands; Grazing; Net ecosystem carbon exchange; Panam ; Tropical ecology

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; GAS EXCHANGE; GRAZING; PASTURE; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

PANAMA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0036098691     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00322.x     Document Type: Article

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