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Title: Snowmelt‐Driven Trade‐Offs Between Early and Late Season Productivity Negatively Impact Forest Carbon Uptake During Drought

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO USA, School of Geography and Development University of Arizona Tucson AZ USA
  2. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO USA, Department of Geography University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO USA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena CA USA
  3. School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
  4. Department of Biology University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM USA
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1432132
Grant/Contract Number:  
A14‐0146‐009 (13‐0594); 7094866
Resource Type:
Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Geophysical Research Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Geophysical Research Letters Journal Volume: 45 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Knowles, John F., Molotch, Noah P., Trujillo, Ernesto, and Litvak, Marcy E. Snowmelt‐Driven Trade‐Offs Between Early and Late Season Productivity Negatively Impact Forest Carbon Uptake During Drought. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1002/2017GL076504.
Knowles, John F., Molotch, Noah P., Trujillo, Ernesto, & Litvak, Marcy E. Snowmelt‐Driven Trade‐Offs Between Early and Late Season Productivity Negatively Impact Forest Carbon Uptake During Drought. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076504
Knowles, John F., Molotch, Noah P., Trujillo, Ernesto, and Litvak, Marcy E. Fri . "Snowmelt‐Driven Trade‐Offs Between Early and Late Season Productivity Negatively Impact Forest Carbon Uptake During Drought". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076504.
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