Relationships between regional primary production and vegetation patterns

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Gao, Qiong ^a   Yu, Mei ^b   Wang, Junhua ^a   Jia, Haikun ^a   Wang, Kun ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Patchiness; Patterns and processes; Terrestrial ecosystems; Vegetation distribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PATCHINESS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; VEGETATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 1242276676     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(03)00250-3     Document Type: Article

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