Productivity and carbon allocation in a tropical montane cloud forest in the Peruvian Andes

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 107-123

  Girardin, Cécile A J ^a   Espejob, Javier E Silva ^b   Doughty, Christopher E ^c   Huasco, Walter Huaraca ^b   Metcalfe, Dan B ^d   Durand Baca, Liliana ^b   Marthews, Toby R ^a   Aragao, Luiz E O C ^e   Farfán Rios, William ^f   García Cabrera, Karina ^f   Halladay, Katherine ^a   Fisher, Joshua B ^g   Galiano Cabrera, Darcy F ^b   Huaraca Quispe, Lidia P ^b   Alzamora Taype, Ivonne ^b   Eguiluz Mora, Luzmila ^b   Revilla, Norma Salinas ^a   Silman, Miles R ^f   Meir, Patrick ^h   Malhi, Yadvinder ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^f WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Andes; carbon use efficiency; ecophysiology; elevation gradient; net primary productivity; respiration; solar radiation; tropical montane forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893260373     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.820222     Document Type: Article

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