The Cooling Capacity of Mosses: Controls on Water and Energy Fluxes in a Siberian Tundra Site

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1055-1065

  Blok, D ^a   Heijmans, M M P D ^a   Schaepman Strub, G ^b   van Ruijven, J ^a   Parmentier, F J W ^c   Maximov, T C ^d   Berendse, F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF CRYOLITHOZONE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic; climate change; evaporation; ground heat flux; moss; permafrost; shrub; tundra

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COOLING; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ENERGY FLUX; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT FLUX; MOSS; ORGANIC SOIL; PERMAFROST; SHRUB; SOIL CARBON; TUNDRA; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SIBERIA;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 80855148187     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9463-5     Document Type: Article

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