Leaf area controls on energy partitioning of a temperate mountain grassland

Biogeosciences

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 421-431

  Hammerle, A ^a   Haslwanter, A ^a   Tappeiner, U ^a   Cernusca, A ^a   Wohlfahrt, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GRASSLAND; LEAF AREA; MEADOW; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOMASS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOIL WATER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; STUBAI; TYROL;

VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 41349083818     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-5-421-2008     Document Type: Article

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