Responses of tropical trees to rainfall seasonality and its long-term changes

Climatic Change

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 381-393

  Borchert, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT RESISTANCE; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 0031828993     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005383020063     Document Type: Review

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