Synergy between small- And large-scale feedbacks of vegetation on the water cycle

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1003-1012

  Scheffer, Marten ^a   Holmgren, Milena ^a   Brovkin, Victor ^b   Claussen, Martin ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Climate change; Facilitation; Hysteresis; Models; Nonlinear change; Semiarid regions; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; SEMIARID REGION; SYNERGISM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 27744584905     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00962.x     Document Type: Review

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