Effects of irrigation on nitrous oxide, methane and carbon dioxide fluxes in an Inner Mongolian steppe

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 748-756

  Liu, Chunyan ^a,b   Holst, Jirko ^b   Brüggemann, Nicolas ^b   Butterbach Bahl, Klaus ^b   Yao, Zhisheng ^a   Han, Shenghui ^a   Han, Xingguo ^c   Zheng, Xunhua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Irrigation; Methane; Nitrous oxide; Precipitation; Semi arid steppe

Indexed keywords

EID: 46549087713     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-008-0748-3     Document Type: Article

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