Frontiers and challenges in soil respiration research: From measurements to model-data integration

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Vargas, Rodrigo ^a   Carbone, Mariah S ^b   Reichstein, Markus ^c   Baldocchi, Dennis D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

14C and 13C; Data assimilation; Isotopes; Model performance; Radiocarbon; Soil CO2 efflux; Soil sensors; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRONTIER REGION; ISOTOPE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH WORK; SOIL RESPIRATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET;

EID: 78650306750     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-010-9462-1     Document Type: Article

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