The importance of winter in annual ecosystem respiration in the High Arctic: effects of snow depth in two vegetation types

Polar Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-74

  Morgner, Elke ^a,b   Elberling, Bo ^a,c   Strebel, Ditte ^a,c   Cooper, Elisabeth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; Precipitation; Snow fence; Svalbard; Tundra vegetation

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEATHLAND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW COVER; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TUNDRA; VEGETATION TYPE; WINTER;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 77955215994     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2010.00151.x     Document Type: Article

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