High atmospheric demand for water can limit forest carbon uptake and transpiration as severely as dry soil

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 9686-9695

  Sulman, Benjamin N ^a,b   Roman, D Tyler ^a,c   Yi, Koong ^a   Wang, Lixin ^d   Phillips, Richard P ^a   Novick, Kimberly A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

drought; eddy covariance; photosynthesis; soil moisture; transpiration; vapor pressure deficit

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DROUGHT; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION;

CLIMATIC WARMING; EDDY COVARIANCE; EDDY COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS; FOREST CARBONS; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATIONS; POTENTIAL TRANSPIRATION; SOIL WATER CONTENT; VAPOR PRESSURE DEFICIT;

FORESTRY;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CARBON BUDGET; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EDDY COVARIANCE; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL MOISTURE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; VAPOR PRESSURE;

INDIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84990187877     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069416     Document Type: Article

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