Water use efficiency threshold for terrestrial ecosystem carbon sequestration in China under afforestation

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 195-196, Issue , 2014, Pages 32-37

  Gao, Yang ^a,b   Zhu, Xianjin ^a   Yu, Guirui ^a   He, Nianpeng ^a   Wang, Qiufeng ^a   Tian, Jing ^a  

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

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Afforestation; C sequestration; Climatic zone; Precipitation isoline; Threshold value; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; ARID REGION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEMIARID REGION; THRESHOLD; WATER UPTAKE;

CHINA;

EID: 84901356509     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.04.010     Document Type: Article

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