Deep roots sustain Amzonian rainforest in climate model simulations of the last ice age

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2425-2428

  Kleidon, Axel ^a   Lorenz, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; GLACIERS; MOISTURE; RAIN; SOILS; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION;

RAINFOREST;

GEOPHYSICS;

LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0035875009     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012750     Document Type: Article

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