High efficiency in water use and carbon gain in a wet year for a desert halophyte community

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 162-163, Issue , 2012, Pages 127-135

  Liu, Ran ^a   Pan, Li Ping ^a   Jenerette, G Darrel ^a,b   Wang, Qin Xue ^c   Cieraad, Ellen ^d   Li, Yan ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^d LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Eddy covariance; Evaporation; Net ecosystem carbon exchange; Transpiration; Water use efficiency; Water use strategy

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON FLUX; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HALOPHYTE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CHINA;

EID: 84861210310     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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