Seasonal production, allocation and cycling of carbon in two mid-elevation tropical montane forest plots in the Peruvian Andes

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 125-142

  Huasco, Walter Huaraca ^a   Girardin, Cécile A J ^b   Doughty, Christopher E ^b   Metcalfe, Daniel B ^c   Baca, Liliana D ^a   Silva Espejo, Javier E ^a   Cabrera, Darcy G ^a   Aragão, Luiz E O C ^d   Davila, Angela R ^a   Marthews, Toby R ^b   Huaraca Quispe, Lidia P ^a   Alzamora Taype, Ivonne ^a   Mora, Luzmila E ^a   Farfán Rios, William ^e   Cabrera, Karina G ^e   Halladay, Katherine ^b   Salinas Revilla, Norma ^a,b   Silman, Miles R ^e   Meir, Patrick ^f   Malhi, Yadvinder ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Andes; carbon use efficiency; ecophysiology; elevational gradient; gross primary productivity; net primary productivity; soil water content; temperature; tropical montane forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893301874     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.819042     Document Type: Article

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