Understanding moisture stress on light use efficiency across terrestrial ecosystems based on global flux and remote-sensing data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2053-2066

  Zhang, Yulong ^a,b   Song, Conghe ^a,c   Sun, Ge ^d   Band, Lawrence E ^a,b   Noormets, Asko ^d,e   Zhang, Quanfa ^f  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

FLUXNET; GPP; LUE; MODIS; moisture stress; soil plant atmosphere continuum

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVERGREEN FOREST; GRASSLAND; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MODIS; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84955208990     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JG003023     Document Type: Article

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