Interannual variability in terrestrial net primary production: Exploration of trends and controls on regional to global scales

Ecosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 36-48

  Potter, Christopher S ^a   Klooster, Steven ^b   Brooks, Vanessa ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interannual variation; Net primary production; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033044821     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900056     Document Type: Article

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