Modeling patterns of nonlinearity in ecosystem responses to temperature, CO2, and precipitation changes

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 453-466

  Zhou, Xuhui ^a   Weng, Ensheng ^a   Luo, Yiqi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

CO2; Evapotranspiration; Global change; Grassland; Heterotrophic respiration; Net ecosystem carbon exchange; Net primary production; Nonlinear pattern; Precipitation; Runoff; temperature

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; RAIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 48949104489     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0626.1     Document Type: Article

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