Analysis of nitrogen controls on carbon and water exchanges in a conifer forest using the CLASS-CTEMN+ model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 20-22, 2011, Pages 3743-3760

  Huang, Suo ^a   Arain, M Altaf ^a,b   Arora, Vivek K ^c   Yuan, Fengming ^a,d   Brodeur, Jason ^a   Peichl, Matthias ^a,e  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS); Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM); Carbon and water fluxes; Nitrogen Carbon coupling; Temperate forest

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; ANNUAL MEAN; BIOLOGICAL FIXATION; CANOPY CONDUCTANCE; CONIFER FORESTS; ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY; ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; EXTREME WEATHER; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; MODEL ESTIMATES; MODEL RESULTS; N CONTENT; N CYCLING; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITIES; NITROGEN CONTROL; NITROGEN-CARBON-COUPLING; ONTARIO , CANADA; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPERATE FORESTS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; WATER CYCLING; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER FLUX;

DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; IONIC CONDUCTION; LEACHING; NITROGEN; PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATER CONTENT; WATER SUPPLY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CANOPY EXCHANGE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE MODELING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND SURFACE; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASONALITY; SOIL WATER; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; TEMPERATE FOREST; WATER CONTENT; WATER EXCHANGE;

CONDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE CONTENT; NITRIFICATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SIMULATION; SURFACES; WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 80054109767     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.09.008     Document Type: Article

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