Phenology as a strategy for carbon optimality: a global model

Phenology is essential to our understanding of biogeochemical cycles and the climate system. We develop a global mechanistic model of leaf phenology based on the hypothesis that phenology is a strategy for optimal carbon gain at the canopy level so that trees adjust leaf gains and losses in response...

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Main Authors: S. Caldararu, D. W. Purves, P. I. Palmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2014-02-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/11/763/2014/bg-11-763-2014.pdf