Can carbon isotopes be used to predict watershed-scale transpiration?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Pypker, T G ^a   Barnard, H R ^b   Hauck, M ^b   Sulzman, E W ^b   Unsworth, M H ^b   Mix, A C ^b   Kennedy, A M ^b   Bond, B J ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; WATERSHEDS;

AREA OF INTEREST; BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; CANOPY CONDUCTANCE; DISSIPATION METHODS; ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATIONS;

TRANSPIRATION;

AIRFLOW; CANOPY; CARBON ISOTOPE; ESTIMATION METHOD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONTANE FOREST; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; RESPIRATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRANSPIRATION; WATERSHED;

EID: 79551673965     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007050     Document Type: Article

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