Impacts of exceptional and extreme inter-annual climatic events on the net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange of a sitka spruce forest

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 184, Issue , 2014, Pages 147-157

  Saunders, M ^a   Tobin, B ^a   Sweeney, C ^a   Gioria, M ^a   Benanti, G ^a   Cacciotti, E ^a   Osborne, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Climate; Ecosystem respiration; Eddy covariance; Gross primary productivity; Net ecosystem exchange; Sitka spruce

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; EXTREME EVENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWING SEASON; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; RAINFALL; RESPIRATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

IRELAND;

EID: 84886050750     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.09.009     Document Type: Article

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