Nonlinear responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes and water-use efficiency to nitrogen addition in Inner Mongolia grassland

Functional Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 490-499

  Tian, Dashuan ^a,b   Niu, Shuli ^b   Pan, Qingmin ^a   Ren, Tingting ^a   Chen, Shiping ^a   Bai, Yongfei ^a   Han, Xingguo ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecosystem carbon balance; Nitrogen deposition; Precipitation pattern; Saturation response; Threshold response; Water flux

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATURATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; THRESHOLD; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84961182388     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12513     Document Type: Article

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