What is NPP? Inconsistent accounting of respiratory fluxes in the definition of net primary production

Functional Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 378-382

  Roxburgh, S H ^a   Berry, S L ^a   Buckley, T N ^a   Barnes, B ^a   Roderick, M L ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESPIRATION;

EID: 23444456319     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2005.00983.x     Document Type: Review

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