Estimating total net primary productivity of managed grasslands by a state-space modeling approach in a small catchment on the Loess Plateau, China

Geoderma

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 281-291

  Jia, Xiaoxu ^a   Shao, Mingan ^b   Wei, Xiaorong ^a   Horton, Robert ^c   Li, Xuezhang ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical statistics; Spatial heterogeneity; State space models; Total net primary productivity; Vegetation restoration

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL STATISTICS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STATE-SPACE MODELS; VEGETATION RESTORATION;

CATCHMENTS; FORESTRY; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; RESTORATION; SAMPLING; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICS; UNDERWATER SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

BULK DENSITY; CATCHMENT; GRASSLAND; HILLSLOPE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EROSION; SOIL STABILIZATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTENT;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 78650731425     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2010.09.016     Document Type: Article

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