The sensitivity of carbon fluxes to spring warming and summer drought depends on plant functional type in boreal forest ecosystems

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 147, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 172-185

  Welp, L R ^a   Randerson, J T ^b   Liu, H P ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Jackson State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic and boreal ecosystems; Carbon cycle; Eddy covariance; Global warming; Picea mariana; Populus tremuloides

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DROUGHT; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER; WARMING;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA MARIANA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SALIX;

EID: 35349007944     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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