Net ecosystem productivity of temperate grasslands in northern China: An upscaling study

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 184, Issue , 2014, Pages 71-81

  Zhang, Li ^a,b   Guo, Huadong ^a   Jia, Gensuo ^c   Wylie, Bruce ^d   Gilmanov, Tagir ^e   Howard, Danny ^d   Ji, Lei ^d   Xiao, Jingfeng ^f   Li, Jing ^b   Yuan, Wenping ^g   Zhao, Tianbao ^c   Chen, Shiping ^h   Zhou, Guangsheng ⁱ   Kato, Tomomichi ^j  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^e SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^g Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^h INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

ⁱ STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^j LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

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Author keywords

Flux tower; Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS); Net ecosystem production (NEP); Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); Piecewise regression

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARID REGION; BIOME; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GROWING SEASON; LATITUDE; MEADOW; MODIS; NDVI; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; STEPPE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CHINA;

EID: 84884941202     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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