Seasonal and inter-annual variations in net ecosystem exchange of two old-growth forests in southern China

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 182-183, Issue , 2013, Pages 257-265

  Yan, Junhua ^a   Zhang, Yiping ^b   Yu, Guirui ^c   Zhou, Guoyi ^a   Zhang, Leiming ^c   Li, Kun ^a   Tan, Zhenghong ^b   Sha, Liqing ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Ecosystem respiration; Gross primary productivity; Inter annual variation; Net ecosystem exchange; Old growth forest; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; EDDY COVARIANCE; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RAINFALL; RESPIRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CHINA;

EID: 84885313380     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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