Environmental variation is directly responsible for short- but not long-term variation in forest-atmosphere carbon exchange

Global Change Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 788-803

  Richardson, Andrew D ^a   Hollinger, David Y ^b   Aber, John D ^a   Ollinger, Scott V ^a   Braswell, Bobby H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

AmeriFlux; Ecosystem physiology; Eddy covariance; Howland; Interannual variability; Maximum likelihood; Monte Carlo simulation; Net ecosystem exchange; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; EDDY COVARIANCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

PICEA;

EID: 34247360054     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01330.x     Document Type: Article

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