Estimating the uncertainty in annual net ecosystem carbon exchange: Spatial variation in turbulent fluxes and sampling errors in eddy-covariance measurements

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 883-896

  Oren, Ram ^a   Hsieh, Cheng I ^a,b   Stoy, Paul ^a   Albertson, John ^a,c   McCarthy, Heather R ^a   Harrell, Peter ^a   Katul, Gabriel G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy sublayer; Diurnal flux; Latent heat; Leaf area index; Nocturnal flux; Sap flux; Sensible heat; Temperate pine plantation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; EDDY COVARIANCE; FOREST CANOPY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LEAF AREA INDEX; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATE FOREST; TURBULENCE;

EID: 33745837456     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01131.x     Document Type: Article

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