Modelling Seasonal and Inter-annual Variations in Carbon and Water Fluxes in an Arid-Zone Acacia Savanna Woodland, 1981–2012

Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 625-644

  Chen, Chao ^a,b,c   Cleverly, James ^a   Zhang, Lu ^c   Yu, Qiang ^a   Eamus, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

evapotranspiration; gross primary production; SPA model; transpiration; water use efficiency; WAVES model

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARID REGION; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LEAF AREA INDEX; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ACACIA;

EID: 84954475103     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9956-8     Document Type: Article

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