Phenology of Ecosystem Processes Applications in Global Change Research /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Noormets, Asko. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Life sciences.; Meteorology.; Endangered ecosystems.; Plant Ecology.; Climatic changes.; Ecology.; Environment.; Climate Change.; Ecosystems.; Meteorology/Climatology.; Biogeosciences.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0026-5

Changes in the seasonal timing of ecosystem carbon, water and energy exchange are key sources of variation in biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks. Referencing this variability to traditional phenological events, such as bud break or flowering, introduces additional uncertainty with little mechanistic rel...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Section I: The Seasonal Dynamics of Ecosystem C and H2O Exchange: Links Between Aboveground and Belowground Processes of Respiration As Affected by Phenology
• Partitioning ER to Ra and Rh
• Evapotranspiration and Energy Partitioning
• The Timing of Seasonal Transitions in GEP and ER in a Hardwood and Conifer Chronosequence, and the Effect of Moisture Dynamics
• Interannual Variation in Spring and Fall Transitions in ET and NEE
• Delineating Phenological Signal in Time-Series Data
• Upper vs. Understory Phenology and its Significance for H2O and C Exchange
• Seasonal and Annual Variation in Ecosystem Photosynthesis and Respiration in a Grassland of the Northern Great Plains
• Section II: Remote Sensing Phenology: Overview of the Basics of Index Development, Successes, Challenges. Goals and Compromises; Integration of Scales
• Local Heterogeneity and Validating Remote Sensing Phenology Indices
• The Applicability of MODIS Phenology Indices, Strengths and Weaknesses
• Synthesis  State-of-the-Science and Remaining Challenges
• Index.