Evidence for strong seasonality in the carbon storage and carbon use efficiency of an Amazonian forest

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 979-991

  Rowland, Lucy ^a   Hill, Timothy Charles ^b   Stahl, Clement ^c   Siebicke, Lukas ^c   Burban, Benoit ^c   Zaragoza Castells, Joana ^a   Ponton, Stephane ^d   Bonal, Damien ^d   Meir, Patrick ^a,e   Williams, Mathew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c Campus Agronomique   (France)

^d LERFoB   (France)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon use efficiency; DALEC; Data assimilation; Ecosystem respiration; French Guiana; Seasonal carbon fluxes; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; MASS BALANCE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESPIRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA; FRENCH GUIANA;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON USE EFFICIENCY; CHEMISTRY; DALEC; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION; FRENCH GUIANA; SEASON; SEASONAL CARBON FLUXES; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

CARBON USE EFFICIENCY; DALEC; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION; FRENCH GUIANA; SEASONAL CARBON FLUXES; TROPICAL FOREST;

CARBON CYCLE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER;

EID: 84893641394     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12375     Document Type: Article

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