Are rain-induced ecosystem respiration pulses enhanced by legacies of antecedent photodegradation in semi-arid environments?

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 154-155, Issue , 2012, Pages 203-

  Ma, Siyan ^a   Baldocchi, Dennis D ^a   Hatala, Jaclyn A ^a   Detto, Matteo ^b   Curiel Yuste, Jorge ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Annual grassland; Drought; Ecosystem; Labile carbon pool; Mediterranean climate; Peatland pasture; Respiration; Soil

Indexed keywords

AGROMETEOROLOGY; ANNUAL PLANT; ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; EDDY COVARIANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; LITTER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PASTURE; PEATLAND; PHOTODEGRADATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RESPIRATION; SEMIARID REGION; UNDERSTORY; WOODLAND;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858111383     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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