Effects of climatic factors and ecosystem responses on the inter-annual variability of evapotranspiration in a coniferous plantation in subtropical China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Mingjie ^a,b   Wen, Xuefa ^a   Wang, Huimin ^a   Zhang, Wenjiang ^c   Dai, Xiaoqin ^a   Song, Jie ^d   Wang, Yidong ^e   Fu, Xiaoli ^a   Liu, Yunfen ^a   Sun, Xiaomin ^a   Yu, Guirui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PLANTATION; PRECIPITATION; RADIATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL WATER CONTENT; TROPICS; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; RAIN; WATER;

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; RAIN; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER;

EID: 84899810156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085593     Document Type: Article

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