Seasonal Variation in the Capacity for Plant Trait Measures to Predict Grassland Carbon and Water Fluxes

Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1095-1108

  Everwand, Georg ^a,b   Fry, Ellen L ^b   Eggers, Till ^c,d   Manning, Pete ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

biodiversity; biomass; climate; community weighted mean; ecosystem services; evapotranspiration; Functional diversity; photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASSLAND; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER EXCHANGE;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84906085487     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-014-9779-z     Document Type: Article

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