Plant trait, vegetation, ecosystem, and landscape responses to earlier snowmelt and foresummer drought: long-term monitoring and experiments reveal the drivers of carbon exchange in a Colorado watershed


Brian Joseph Enquist1, Amanda Henderson1, Lindsey Sloat2, Lorah Beth Patterson3, Christine Lamanna4, Chelsea Wilmer5, Sandra M Duran6, Haruko M Wainwright7, Eoin Brodie8, Heidi Steltzer9, Kenneth Hurst Williams10 and Susan Hubbard11, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (2)University of Minnesota, Wahroonga, Australia, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (4)World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya, (5)Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Berkeley, United States, (8)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)Iliff School of Theology, Denver, United States, (10)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (11)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States