Vegetation Type Dominates the Spatial Variability in CH4 Emissions Across Multiple Arctic Tundra Landscapes

Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1116-1132

  Davidson, Scott J ^a,b   Sloan, Victoria L ^b   Phoenix, Gareth K ^a   Wagner, Robert ^b   Fisher, James P ^a   Oechel, Walter C ^b,c   Zona, Donatella ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

arctic tundra; arctic vegetation; climate change; gross primary productivity; methane emissions; plant mediated CH4 transport; sedges; spatial chambers

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GAS TRANSPORT; METHANE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TUNDRA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; BARROW; IVOTUK; UNITED STATES;

CAREX;

EID: 84973129898     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-016-9991-0     Document Type: Article

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