Transient responses of North-American grasslands to changes in climate

Climatic Change

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 269-278

  Coffin, Debra P ^a   Lauenroth, William K ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POACEAE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GAP MODEL; GRASSLAND COMPOSITION; SOIL WATER MODEL; SOILWAT; STEPPE-GP;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0029659753     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00224638     Document Type: Article

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