How much physiology is needed in forest gap models for simulating long-term vegetation response to global change? Introduction

Climatic Change

Volumn 51, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 251-257

  Pitelka, Louis F ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^b   Reynolds, James F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CHANGE; PHYSIOLOGY; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 0035208859     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012501409429     Document Type: Review

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