Spatiotemporal patterns of cropland area and net primary production in the central United States estimated from USDA agricultural information

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Hicke, Jeffrey A ^a   Lobell, David B ^b,c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

0315 Atmospheric composition and structure: Biosphere atmosphere interactions; 0322 Atmospheric composition and structure: Constituent sources and sinks; 1615 Global change: Biogeochemical processes (4805)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CROPS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

CARBON FLUXES; CROPLANDS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION (NPP);

LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARBON FLUX; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHOSPHORUS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; FARM CROPS; LAND USE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11844253796     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020927     Document Type: Article

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