Characterization and understanding of bare soil respiration spatial variability at plot scale

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 762-771

  Herbst, M ^a   Prolingheuer, N ^a   Graf, A ^a   Huisman, J A ^a   Weihermuller L ^a   Vanderborght, J ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

MRD, Mean relative difference

Indexed keywords

BARE SOIL; DATA INTERPRETATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERSISTENCE; SAMPLING; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 70349336760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2008.0068     Document Type: Article

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