Impacts of day versus night warming on soil microclimate: Results from a semiarid temperate steppe

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2807-2816

  Xia, Jianyang ^a,b   Chen, Shiping ^a   Wan, Shiqiang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymmetric diurnal warming; Grassland; Infrared heater; Soil moisture; Soil temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE WARMING; CONSTANT POWER; DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT; DIURNAL WARMING; ECOSYSTEM PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GRASSLAND; INFRARED HEATER; INFRARED HEATERS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; NORTHERN CHINA; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVE RADIATIONS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES; WIND SPEED;

ECOSYSTEMS; INFRARED HEATING; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; SOIL MOISTURE;

TEMPERATURE;

DIURNAL VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; MICROCLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STEPPE; WARMING;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROCLIMATE; NIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; VAPOR PRESSURE; VOLUMETRY;

CHINA; DESERT CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; MICROCLIMATE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA;

EID: 77952542983     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.03.016     Document Type: Article

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