Enhancing the terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink (referred to as terrestrial C sink) is an
important way to slow down the continuous increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) …

As the lifetime of regional flux networks approach twenty years, there is a growing number of
papers that have published long term records (5 years or more) of net carbon fluxes …

Climate change is shifting the growing seasons of plants, affecting species performance and
biogeochemical cycles. Yet how the timing of autumn leaf senescence in Northern …

The ecosystem approach to ecology treats organisms and the physical elements of their
environment as components of a single, integrated system. This comprehensive textbook …

This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

FLUXNET is a global network of micrometeorological flux measurement sites that measure
the exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and energy between the biosphere and …

Remotely sensed vegetation indices are widely used to detect greening and browning
trends; especially the global coverage of time-series normalized difference vegetation index …

The eddy covariance technique ascertains the exchange rate of CO2 across the interface
between the atmosphere and a plant canopy by measuring the covariance between …

Despite the numerous studies which have been conducted during the past decade on
species ranges and their relationship to the environment, our understanding of how …

Variation in soil temperature can account for most of the seasonal and diel variation in soil
CO2 efflux, but the temperature effect is not always consistent, and other factors such as soil …