Rain pulses - how different data streams provide insight in response-times and help to attribute biophysical properties to ecosystem processes.

Tarek S. El-Madany1, Mirco Migliavacca2, Oscar Perez-Priego1, Yunpeng Luo3, Olaf Kolle1, Arnaud Carrara4, Gerardo Moreno5 and Markus Reichstein6, (1)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (2)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany, (3)Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (4)Fundación Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM), Valencia, Spain, (5)Universidad de Extremadura, Dto. de Biologia Vegetal, Ecologia y CC. Tierra,, Plasencia, Caceres, Spain, (6)Integrative Center for Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany