Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 657-670

  Schwalm, Christopher R ^a   Williams, Christopher A ^a   Schaefer, Kevin ^b   Arneth, Almut ^c   Bonal, Damien ^d   Buchmann, Nina ^e   Chen, Jiquan ^f   Law, Beverlye ^g   Lindroth, Anders ^c   Luyssaert, Sebastiaan ^h   Reichstein, Markus ⁱ   Richardson, Andrew D ^j  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Campus Agronomique   (France)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^g OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biome; Carbon cycling; Drought; Eddy covariance; Evaporative fraction; FLUXNET; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; BIOME; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SINK; DROUGHT; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPORATION; EVERGREEN FOREST; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MICROMETEOROLOGY; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; RESPIRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; UPSCALING;

EID: 77949487721     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01991.x     Document Type: Article

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