the International Partnership Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. CXTD-Z2005-1);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2002CB412501);NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program (Grant Nos. NAG5-11160, NNG05GH80G)
Carbon fluxes in temperate grassland ecosystems are characterized by large inter-annual variations due to fluctuations in precipitation and land water availability. Since an eddy flux tower has been in operation in th...