On the multi-temporal correlation between photosynthesis and soil CO 2 efflux: Reconciling lags and observations

New Phytologist

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1006-1017

  Vargas, Rodrigo ^a   Baldocchi, Dennis D ^b   Bahn, Michael ^c   Hanson, Paul J ^d   Hosman, Kevin P ^e   Kulmala, Liisa ^f   Pumpanen, Jukka ^f   Yang, Bai ^d  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Eddy covariance; Forest; Grassland; Hysteresis; Photosynthesis; Soil respiration; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; BIOPHYSICS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY COVARIANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; HYSTERESIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CELL RESPIRATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SEASON; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TREE;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL RESPIRATION; ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POACEAE; SEASONS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 80051584761     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03771.x     Document Type: Article

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