Coupling microscale vegetation-soil water and macroscale vegetation-precipitation feedbacks in semiarid ecosystems

Global Change Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 671-678

  Dekker, Stefan C ^a   Rietkerk, Max ^a   Bierkens, Marc F P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Climate change; Semiarid regions; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 33947383385     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01327.x     Document Type: Article

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