Los tres ejes principales de la función del ecosistema terrestre

Mirco Migliavacca1,2,3, Talie Musavi4, Miguel D Mahecha4,5,6,7

  • 1Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany. mmiglia@bgc-jena.mpg.de.

Nature
|September 23, 2021
PubMed
Resumen

Los científicos identificaron tres ejes clave que explican el 71,8% de la variabilidad de la función del ecosistema. Estos ejes se relacionan con la productividad, las estrategias de uso del agua y la eficiencia del uso del carbono, ofreciendo información sobre las respuestas de los ecosistemas al cambio ambiental.

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