Ten-year variability in ecosystem water use efficiency in an oak-dominated temperate forest under a warming climate

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 218-219, Issue , 2016, Pages 209-217

  Xie, Jing ^a,c   Chen, Jiquan ^b   Sun, Ge ^d   Zha, Tianshan ^a   Yang, Bai ^e   Chu, Housen ^f   Liu, Junguo ^a   Wan, Shiqiang ^g   Zhou, Caixian ^c   Ma, Hong ^c   Bourque, Charles P A ^h   Shao, Changliang ^b   John, Ranjeet ^b   Ouyang, Zutao ^b  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Beijing Forestry Carbon Sequestration Administration   (China)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dryness index; Eddy covariance; Evapotranspiration; Gross ecosystem production; Long term variability; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWING SEASON; LEAF AREA INDEX; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NET RADIATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATE FOREST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WATER VAPOR;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84953241954     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.12.059     Document Type: Article

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