Response of ecosystem carbon exchange to warming and nitrogen addition during two hydrologically contrasting growing seasons in a temperate steppe

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1544-1556

  Xia, Jianyang ^a,b   Niu, Shuli ^a   Wan, Shiqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon; Climatic warming; Grassland; Nitrogen; Plant functional type; Precipitation; Respiration; Soil moisture; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON FLUX; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWING SEASON; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NITROGEN CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; STEPPE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 65549151282     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01807.x     Document Type: Article

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