Detecting tropical forests' responses to global climatic and atmospheric change: Current challenges and a way forward

Biotropica

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-19

  Clark, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Data access; Ecophysiology; Forest ecology; Global change; Landscape sampling; Monitoring; Process modeling; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 33846103455     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00227.x     Document Type: Review

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