Response of the carbon cycle in sub-arctic black spruce forests to climate change: Reduction of a carbon sink related to the sensitivity of heterotrophic respiration

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 582-602

  Ueyama, Masahito ^a   Harazono, Yoshinobu ^a   Kim, Yongwon ^a   Tanaka, Noriyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

BIOME BGC; Black spruce forest; Carbon cycle; Climate change; Eddy covariance

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; REDUCTION; RESPIRATION; SUBARCTIC REGION;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 59249089700     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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