Water-mediated responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to climatic change in a temperate steppe

• Published in: The New phytologist Vol. 177; no. 1; pp. 209 - 219
• Main Authors: Niu, Shuli, Wu, Mingyu, Han, Yi, Xia, Jianyang, Li, Linghao, Wan, Shiqiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2008; Blackwell Science; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: carbon; Carbon - metabolism; Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Ecosystem; evapotranspiration; Global warming; grassland; grasslands; Greenhouse Effect; Marine ecosystems; Net ecosystem exchange; Plant Leaves - metabolism; Plants - metabolism; Precipitation; Soil heating; Soil water; Steppes; Temperature; Terrestrial ecosystems; Time Factors; Water - metabolism

Global warming and a changing precipitation regime could have a profound impact on ecosystem carbon fluxes, especially in arid and semiarid grasslands where water is limited. A field experiment manipulating temperature and precipitation has been conducted in a temperate steppe in northern China sinc...