Ecosystem impacts of climate extremes crucially depend on the timing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 5768-5770

  Sippela, Sebastian ^a,b   Zscheischlerb, Jakob ^b   Reichsteina, Markus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOIL WATER;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SINK; CARBON SOURCE; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EXTREME; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOREST; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT STOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SPRING; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER CYCLE; CLIMATE;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84969771441     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1605667113     Document Type: Note

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