How is water-use efficiency of terrestrial ecosystems distributed and changing on Earth?

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tang, Xuguang ^a   Li, Hengpeng ^a   Desai, Ankur R ^b   Nagy, Zoltan ^c   Luo, Juhua ^a   Kolb, Thomas E ^d   Olioso, Albert ^e   Xu, Xibao ^a   Yao, Li ^f   Kutsch, Werner ^g,h   Pilegaard, Kim ⁱ   Köstner, Barbara ^j   Ammann, Christof ^k  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UAPV   (France)

^f NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁱ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^j DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^k AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; WATER;

ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; METABOLISM; WATER SUPPLY;

CARBON; CLIMATE; EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84941135915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07483     Document Type: Article

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