Seasonality of above-ground net primary productivity along an Andean altitudinal transect in Peru

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 503-519

  Girardin, C A J ^a   Malhi, Y ^a   Feeley, K J ^b   Rapp, J M ^c   Silman, M R ^d   Meir, P ^e   Huaraca Huasco, W ^f   Salinas, N ^a,f   Mamani, M ^f   Silva Espejo, J E ^f   Garcia Cabrera K ^d   Farfan Rios, W ^d   Metcalfe, D B ^g   Doughty, C E ^a   Aragao L E O C ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carbon dynamics; ecophysiology; litterfall; net primary productivity; seasonality; soil water content; solar irradiance; temperature; tropical montane cloud forest

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CARBON CYCLE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FOREST CANOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX; LITTERFALL; MONTANE FOREST; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SOIL WATER; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL FOREST; ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; CENSUS; CLOUD FOREST; IRRADIANCE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; TRANSECT;

AMAZONIA; ANDES; PERU;

EID: 84931382809     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467414000443     Document Type: Article

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