Trade-offs between global warming and day length on the start of the carbon uptake period in seasonally cold ecosystems

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 6136-6142

  Wohlfahrt, Georg ^a   Cremonese, Edoardo ^b   Hammerle, Albin ^a   Hörtnagl, Lukas ^a   Galvagno, Marta ^b   Gianelle, Damiano ^c   Marcolla, Barbara ^c   Di Cella, Umberto Morra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Environmental Protection Agency of Aosta Valley   (Italy)

^c RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

carbon gain; grassland; net ecosystem exchange; photosynthesis; respiration; snowmelt

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM CARBONS; ELEVATIONAL GRADIENTS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; GRASSLAND; INCIDENT RADIATION; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; RESPIRATION; SNOWMELT;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CALIBRATION; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RADIATION BALANCE; RESPIRATION; SNOWMELT; TRADE-OFF;

ALPS;

EID: 84891613245     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058182     Document Type: Article

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