Modeling plant structure and its impacts on carbon and water cycles of the Central Asian arid ecosystem in the context of climate change

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 267, Issue , 2013, Pages 158-179

  Zhang, Chi ^a   Li, Chaofan ^a,b   Luo, Geping ^a   Chen, Xi ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Central Asia; Dryland; Ecological model; Root distribution

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLES; CENTRAL ASIA; DRYLAND; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ROOT DISTRIBUTION;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ARID REGION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EXTREME EVENT; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; MODEL VALIDATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; WATER UPTAKE;

CENTRAL ASIA;

EID: 84883741411     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.06.008     Document Type: Article

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