Carbon dioxide exchange in a semidesert grassland through drought-induced vegetation change

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Scott, Russell L ^a   Hamerlynck, Erik P ^a   Jenerette, G Darrel ^b   Moran, M Susan ^a   Barron Gafford, Greg A ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SINK; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY FLUX; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MORTALITY; NATIVE SPECIES; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFALL; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS LEHMANNIANA; POACEAE;

EID: 77957597958     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JG001348     Document Type: Article

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