Contrasting carbon dioxide fluxes between a drying shrub wetland in Northern Wisconsin, USA, and nearby forests

Biogeosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1115-1126

  Sulman, B N ^a   Desai, A R ^a   Cook, B D ^b   Saliendra, N ^c   MacKay, D S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c US Forest Service Northern Research Station   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE MODELING; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; RESPIRATION; SHRUB; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 77957720758     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-6-1115-2009     Document Type: Article

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