Remotely monitoring ecosystem respiration from various grasslands along a large-scale east–west transect across northern China

Abstract Background Grassland ecosystems play an important role in the terrestrial carbon cycles through carbon emission by ecosystem respiration (R e ) and carbon uptake by plant photosynthesis (GPP). Surprisingly, given R e occupies a large component of annual carbon balance, rather less attention...

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Main Authors: Xuguang Tang, Yanlian Zhou, Hengpeng Li, Li Yao, Zhi Ding, Mingguo Ma, Pujia Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-04-01
Series:Carbon Balance and Management
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13021-020-00141-8