Climate-driven increases in global terrestrial net primary production from 1982 to 1999

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5625, 2003, Pages 1560-1563

  Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^a,f   Keeling, Charles D ^b   Hashimoto, Hirofumi ^a,c   Jolly, William M ^a   Piper, Stephen C ^b   Tucker, Compton J ^d   Myneni, Ranga B ^e   Running, Steven W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; GROWTH KINETICS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATIC CONSTRAINTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CARBON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; PRODUCTIVITY; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; CROP PRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; OBSERVATION; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; PLANTS; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 0037567254     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082750     Document Type: Article

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