Contrasting responses of gross primary productivity to precipitation events in a water-limited and a temperature-limited grassland ecosystem

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 214-215, Issue , 2015, Pages 169-177

  Guo, Qun ^a   Hu, Zhongmin ^a   Li, Shenggong ^a   Yu, Guirui ^a   Sun, Xiaomin ^a   Zhang, Leiming ^a   Mu, Songlin ^b   Zhu, Xianjin ^a   Wang, Yanfen ^c   Li, Yingnian ^d   Zhao, Wei ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine meadow in Tibet; Global climate change; Grassland ecosystem; Gross primary productivity; Precipitation event; Temperate steppe in Inner Mongolia

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MEADOW; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL WATER; STEPPE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL; XIZANG;

EID: 84940372876     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.08.251     Document Type: Article

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