Responses of Ecosystem Carbon Cycling to Climate Change Treatments Along an Elevation Gradient

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1066-1080

  Wu, Zhuoting ^a   Koch, George W ^a   Dijkstra, Paul ^a   Bowker, Matthew A ^a   Hungate, Bruce A ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ecosystem respiration; gross ecosystem photosynthesis; net ecosystem exchange; precipitation; structural equation model; warming

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASS; MESOCOSM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80855143617     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9464-4     Document Type: Article

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