Climate change impacts and vegetation response on the island of madagascar

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1826, 2005, Pages 55-59

  Ingram, J Carter ^a   Dawson, Terence P ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ENSO (El Ni o Southern Oscillation); Madagascar; NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index); Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244261327     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1476     Document Type: Article

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