Soil drying and nitrogen availability modulate carbon and water exchange over a range of annual precipitation totals and grassland vegetation types

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3018-3030

  Clair, Samuel B St ^a   Sudderth, Erika A ^b   Fischer, Marc L ^c   Torn, Margaret S ^c   Stuart, Stephanie A ^b   Salve, Rohit ^c   Eggett, Dennis L ^a   Ackerly, David D ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Ecosystem; Fluxes; Forbs; Gasexchange; Grassland; Photosynthesis; Precipitation; Pulse; Respiration; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GAS EXCHANGE; GRASSLAND; MESOCOSM; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL RESPIRATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER EXCHANGE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349718508     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01862.x     Document Type: Article

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