Journal article
How climate and vegetation type influence evapotranspiration and water use efficiency in Canadian forest, peatland and grassland ecosystems
Abstract
The effects of climatic factors and vegetation type on evapotranspiration (E) and water use efficiency (WUE) were analyzed using tower-based eddy-covariance (EC) data for nine mature forest sites, two peatland sites and one grassland site across an east–west continental-scale transect in Canada during the period 2003–2006. The seasonal pattern of E was closely linked to growing-season length and rainfall distribution. Although annual …
Authors
Brümmer C; Black TA; Jassal RS; Grant NJ; Spittlehouse DL; Chen B; Nesic Z; Amiro BD; Arain MA; Barr AG
Journal
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Vol. 153, , pp. 14–30
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
February 2012
DOI
10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.04.008
ISSN
0168-1923