Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought

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

Volumn 113, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 5880-5885

  Wolf, Sebastian ^a,b,m   Keenan, Trevor F ^c,m   Fisher, Joshua B ^d   Baldocchi, Dennis D ^a   Desai, Ankur R ^e   Richardson, Andrew D ^f   Scott, Russell L ^g   Law, Beverly E ^h   Litvak, Marcy E ⁱ   Brunsell, Nathaniel A ^j   Peters, Wouter ^k,l   Van Der Laan Luijkx, Ingrid T ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CARL HAYDEN BEE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^k WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^m LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biosphere Atmosphere feedbacks; Carbon uptake; Climate anomalies; Ecosystem fluxes; Eddy covariance

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SINK; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY; HEATING; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPRING; SUMMER; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; THERMAL SPRING;

CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; HOT SPRINGS;

EID: 84969902717     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1519620113     Document Type: Article

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