Assessing the uncertainty of estimated annual totals of net ecosystem productivity: A practical approach applied to a mid latitude temperate pine forest

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1823-1830

  Elbers, Jan A ^a   Jacobs, Cor M J ^a   Kruijt, Bart ^a   Jans, Wilma W P ^a   Moors, Eddy J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon; Eddy covariance; Net ecosystem productivity; Scots pine; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON CYCLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MICROMETEOROLOGY; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NETHERLANDS;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 80054944912     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.07.020     Document Type: Article

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