Wind as a main driver of the net ecosystem carbon balance of a semiarid Mediterranean steppe in the South East of Spain

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 539-554

  Rey, Ana ^a   Belelli Marchesini, Luca ^b   Were, Ana ^a   Serrano ortiz, Penelope ^a   Etiope, Giuseppe ^c,d   Papale, Dario ^b   Domingo, Francisco ^a   Pegoraro, Emiliano ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Alpha grass; Carbon sequestration; Ecosystem respiration; Eddy covariance; Geogas; Geothermal activity; Grasslands; Net ecosystem carbon balance

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOPHYSICS; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; GRASSLAND; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; PARTITIONING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; STEPPE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION; WIND;

SPAIN;

STIPA TENACISSIMA;

EID: 84855829139     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02534.x     Document Type: Article

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