Spatial and temporal variations in plant water-use efficiency inferred from tree-ring, eddy covariance and atmospheric observations

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 525-533

  Dekker, Stefan C ^a   Groenendijk, Margriet ^b   Booth, Ben B B ^c   Huntingford, Chris ^d   Cox, Peter M ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; EFFICIENCY; FORESTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TRANSPIRATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE; ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; EDDY COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; EDDY COVARIANCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRANSPIRATION; TREE RING; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

FAR EAST; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84976604142     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-7-525-2016     Document Type: Article

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