Drought impacts on ecosystem functions of the U.S. National Forests and Grasslands: Part I evaluation of a water and carbon balance model

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 353, Issue , 2015, Pages 260-268

  Sun, Shanlei ^a   Sun, Ge ^b   Caldwell, Peter ^c   McNulty, Steven G ^b   Cohen, Erika ^b   Xiao, Jingfeng ^d   Zhang, Yang ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Gross primary productivity; Modeling; National Forests and Grasslands; Water yield

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MODELS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE FUNCTIONS; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; NATIONAL FORESTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; WATER YIELD;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GAUGE; GRASSLAND; INDEX METHOD; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROTECTED AREA; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; STREAMFLOW; VALUATION; WATER BUDGET; WATER STRESS; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938199881     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.03.054     Document Type: Article

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