Climate impact on net ecosystem productivity of a semi-arid natural grassland: Modeling and measurement

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 99-116

  Li, Tao ^a   Grant, Robert F ^a   Flanagan, Lawrence B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; CO 2 flux; Ecosystem modeling; Energy exchange; Grassland; Latent heat flux; Net ecosystem productivity; Soil carbon; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENERGY FLUX; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GRASSLAND; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; SEMIARID REGION;

EID: 7044274606     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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