Contrasting simulated past and future responses of the Amazonian forest to atmospheric change

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1443, 2004, Pages 539-547

  Cowling, Sharon A ^a,c   Betts, Richard A ^b   Cox, Peter M ^b   Ettwein, Virginia J ^a   Jones, Chris D ^b   Maslin, Mark A ^a   Spall, Steven A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amazon Basin; Carbon balance; Last glacial maximum; Palaeovegetation modelling; Rainforest resiliency; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CHANGE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFOREST;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1642278877     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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