Field-based observations of regional-scale, temporal variation in net primary production in Tibetan alpine grasslands

Biogeosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2003-2016

  Shi, Y ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Ma, Y ^a   Ma, W ^c   Liang, C ^c   Flynn, D F B ^b,d   Schmid, B ^d   Fang, J ^a   He, J S ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^c INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GRASSLAND; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SITE INVESTIGATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 84898431775     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-2003-2014     Document Type: Article

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