Greater ecosystem carbon in the Mojave Desert after ten years exposure to elevated CO 2

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 394-397

  Evans, R D ^a   Koyama, A ^a,b   Sonderegger, D L ^a,c   Charlet, T N ^d   Newingham, B A ^d,e   Fenstermaker, L F ^f   Harlow, B ^a   Jin, V L ^a,g   Ogle, K ^h   Smith, S D ^d   Nowak, R S ⁱ  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^f DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^h ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899556826     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2184     Document Type: Article

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