Using simple environmental variables to estimate below-ground productivity in grasslands

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 79-86

  Gill, R A ^a,i   Kelly, R H ^b   Parton, W J ^b   Day, K A ^c   Jackson, R B ^a   Morgan, J A ^d   Scurlock, J M O ^e   Tieszen, L L ^f   Castle, J V ^g   Ojima, D S ^b   Zhang, X S ^h  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c Climate Impacts and Grazing Systems ^*  (Australia)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

ⁱ WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Below ground biomass; Biomass to NPP conversion; Functional equilibrium; Grassland NPP; Net primary production; NPP estimation; Root turnover

Indexed keywords

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASSLAND; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; ALGORITHM; BELOWGROUND PRODUCTION; MODELING; STRESS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 18244375584     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2001.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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