Ecological functioning in grass-shrub Mediterranean ecosystems measured by eddy covariance

Oecologia

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1005-1017

  Serrano Ortiz, Penélope ^a,b   Oyonarte, Cecilio ^c   Pérez Priego, Oscar ^b,d   Reverter, Borja R ^e   Sánchez Cañete, Enrique P ^a,b   Were, Ana ^a   Uclés, Olga ^a   Morillas, Laura ^a   Domingo, Francisco ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b Centro Andaluz de Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e Departamento de Ciências Fundamentais e Sociais Universidade Federal da Paraíba Campus II   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbon exchange; Eddy covariance; Mediterranean climate; Photosynthesis; Respiration; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EDDY COVARIANCE; GRASS; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESPIRATION; SHRUB; VADOSE ZONE; VENTILATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POACEAE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TREE;

ALTITUDE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POACEAE; TREES;

EID: 84902788582     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2948-0     Document Type: Article

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