Topographic controls on spatial patterns of conifer transpiration and net primary productivity under climate warming in mountain ecosystems

Ecohydrology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 541-554

  Tague, C ^a   Heyn, K ^a   Christensen, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine ecosystems; Climate change; Conifer; Hydrologic modelling; Net primary productivity; Sierra Nevada; Snow; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ECOSYSTEMS; ALPINE REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CO; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE WARMING; COUPLED MODELS; DIRECT IMPACT; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ELEVATION GRADIENT; GROWING SEASON; HYDROLOGIC MODELLING; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; INDIRECT EFFECTS; LOCAL MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SEASONAL SNOWPACK; SIERRA NEVADA; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SUMMER DROUGHTS; TEMPERATURE LIMITEDS; TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROL; VEGETATION GROWTH; VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY; VEGETATION RESPONSE; WATER USE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WATERSHED SCALE; YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; PARKS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; SNOW; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME MEASUREMENT; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RECHARGE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRANSPIRATION; WARMING; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

BOD; CLIMATES; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PINUS WASHOENSIS; PLANTS; PRODUCTIVITY; SNOW; SOFTWOODS; SOIL; TIME MEASUREMENT; TRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 77949669257     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.88     Document Type: Article

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