Precipitation drives interannual variation in summer soil respiration in a Mediterranean-climate, mixed-conifer forest

Climatic Change

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 109-122

  Concilio, Amy ^a,d   Chen, Jiquan ^a   Ma, Siyan ^b   North, Malcolm ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c USFS Sierra Nevada Research Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; THEOREM PROVING; UNDERWATER SOILS;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATIONS; CANOPY COVERS; CARBON CYCLING; CLIMATE VARIATIONS; CONIFER FORESTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FUTURE CLIMATES; GROWING SEASONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITIES; INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MOISTURE STRESSES; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SIERRA NEVADA; SOIL RESPIRATIONS; SOIL WATERS; SPATIAL SCALES; SUMMER PRECIPITATIONS; TREE DENSITIES; WINTER PRECIPITATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOWPACK; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL WATER;

DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; FORESTRY; FORESTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION; RESPIRATION; SOFTWOODS; SOIL ANALYSIS;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 58149394913     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9475-0     Document Type: Article

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