Rainfall and foliar dynamics in tropical southern Africa: Potential impacts of global climatic change on Savanna vegetation

Climatic Change

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-96

  Fuller, Douglas O ^a   Prince, Stephen D ^b  

^a Third World Forum Dakar   (Senegal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; FOLIAR DYNAMICS; GLOBAL CHANGE; NDVI; NOAA; RAINFALL; SAVANNA;

AFRICA, (SOUTHERN);

EID: 0029662466     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00140514     Document Type: Article

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