Respiration controls the unexpected seasonal pattern of carbon flux in an Asian tropical rain forest

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 3886-3893

  Zhang, Yiping ^a   Tan, Zhenghong ^a,b   Song, Qinghai ^a,b   Yu, Guirui ^c   Sun, Xiaomin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon sink; Eddy covariance; Intensive leaf change; Seasonal drought

Indexed keywords

CARBON EXCHANGE; CARBON FLUXES; CARBON SINK; DRY SEASONS; ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; INTENSIVE LEAF CHANGE; RAINY SEASONS; SEASONAL DROUGHT; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SEASONALITY; SINK STRENGTH; SOUTHWEST CHINA; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; TROPICAL SEASONAL RAIN FOREST;

DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; RAIN; TROPICS;

FORESTRY;

CARBON FLUX; CARBON SINK; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EDDY COVARIANCE; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; RAINFOREST; RESPIRATION; SEASONALITY;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SOURCE; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; RAIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICS;

CHINA;

EID: 77955981024     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.07.027     Document Type: Article

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