Carbon and water fluxes in ecologically vulnerable areas in China.

Eddy covariance measurements also produce information on how ecosystem respond to the changes in climate, which is useful for assessing ecosystem carbon sequestration ([10]), water and energy balance ([8]), resource use efficiency ([15]) and ecosystem feedback to climate change ([11]; [18]; [28]). Ecologic vulnerable areas (EVAs) are the regions where ecosystems are fragile and vulnerable to suffer from degradation with external disturbances, e.g. environmental changes and human activities ([7]; [20]). Therefore, clarifying the variations and controls of ecosystem carbon and water fluxes is an effective approach to clarifying how ecosystem respond to global change in EVAs ([2]). [Extracted from the article]