Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical rainforest regions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1443, 2004, Pages 311-329

  Malhi, Yadvinder ^a   Wright, James ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Amazonia; Asia; Climate change; Drought; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; FOREST COVER; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AFRICA; AMAZONIA; ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1642408838     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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