Patterns and controls of the variability of radiation use efficiency and primary productivity across terrestrial ecosystems

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 253-267

  Garbulsky, Martín F ^a,b   Peñuelas, Josep ^a   Papale, Dario ^c   Ardö, Jonas ^d   Goulden, Michael L ^e   Kiely, Gerard ^f   Richardson, Andrew D ^g   Rotenberg, Eyal ^h   Veenendaal, Elmar M ⁱ   Filella, Iolanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

ⁱ WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Climatic controls; Eddy covariance; Gross primary productivity; Radiation use efficiency; Remote sensing; Terrestrial vegetation

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FIXATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RAINFOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TUNDRA; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 76249091832     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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